bash - order of commands when calling remote script?

babag · 04-05-2008, 04:52 PM

if i use a bash script to ssh into a remote computer
and run a bash script on that remote computer, does
my local bash script continue:

a. after the call is make to the remote script?
b. after the remote script starts running?
c. after the remote script finishes running?

if c, is there a way of jumping back to the local
script so that it can continue, leaving the remote
script running? how would i do that?

thanks,
BabaG

blacky_5251 · 04-05-2008, 05:01 PM

The answer to question 1 is c.
The answer to question 2 is to add an ampersand to the end of the ssh command line - i.e.

Code:

ssh user@there yourscript.sh &

This will tell your local bash script to invoke ssh and immediately continue to the next command. The ssh command is performed as a child process.

babag · 04-05-2008, 05:10 PM

thanks ian! this is great! very helpful.

BabaG