[mdlug] Remote shell scripts via ssh?

[Aaron Kulkis]

Ingles, Raymond wrote:
>> From: Mark Montague
> 
>> The following also works:
>>
>> ssh user at machine.example.com /bin/sh <local_script.sh
> 
>  I slapped my forehead when I saw that one! Duh! Seems to work
> well. Thanks!
> 

Hope it didn't leave a mark ;-)

I would make that a wrapper script, call it, say, remssh

#!/bin/bash
#
# remssh - runs a locally stored script on a remote host via ssh
#
# Usage: remssh user at remote_host script
#
# Date        Author          Notes
# ----------- ----------      ------------
# 27 Feb 2007 Aaron R. Kulkis Version 1.0
#
# Suggested improvements: new syntax remssh [user] remote_host script
# unspecified user name indicates using same name as local user.
# optional shell argument to specify another interpreter than /bin/sh
#

USER_REMOTE_HOST=$1
SCRIPT=$2

ssh $USER_REMOTE_HOST /bin/sh << $SCRIPT