[mdlug] Remote shell scripts via ssh?

[Wojtak, Greg]

what about something stupid like cat local_script.sh | ssh
user at machine.a.org (cat '>>' /tmp/script_from_beyond.sh;
script_from_beyond.sh)




On 2/26/07 2:00 PM, "Ingles, Raymond" <Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com> wrote:

> 
>  I'd like to take a shell script residing on one machine, say machine A,
> and run it on machine B. Ideally, I'd like to be able to do this under the
> control of another script. And I'd like to be able to do this with SSH.
> 
>  However, ssh has the ability to run a single command line remotely, a la:
> 
>  ssh user at machine.a.org ps -ef
> 
>  ...but it won't run a local script remotely. And doing something like:
> 
>  ssh user at machine.a.org <local_script.sh
> 
>  doesn't work either. The best I've come up with is something like the
> following script:
> 
> ---------------
> #!/bin/sh
> REMHOST=$1
> REMSCRIPT=$2
> scp -q ${REMSCRIPT} ${REMHOST}:${REMSCRIPT}
> ssh -t ${REMHOST} "./${REMSCRIPT};rm ${REMSCRIPT}"
> ---------------
> 
>  But this is, well, 'inelegant'. Plus there exist systems that support
> ssh but *not* scp. Can anyone suggest a better way?
> 
>  Sincerely,
> 
>  Ray Ingles                                     (313) 227-2317
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