getting user input while SSH'ed into another box - linux

I have a bash script that basically should work like below:
get build number from user and put it in buildNum var
prep the build on local machine by calling a local script with buildNum as it's argument
sftp the prepped zip file to remote server1
Do this:
ssh -v $server1 <<EOF
rm -rvf path1-on-remote-server1/*
cd path2-on-remote-server1
unzip ../prepped-zip-file-$buildNum.zip
exit
EOF
sftp the prepped zip file to remote server2
The problem i am having is that on the forth step of number 4, $buildNum is not known to the remote server and it fails.
I tried the following two solutions and both failed:
use double quotes "unzip ../prepped-zip-file-$buildNum.zip" which resulted in "unzip ../prepped-zip-file-11.6.zip: Command not found.
tried to get the build number again from the user during the SSH session which failed again by not even waiting for my input and looking for a zip file without the build number at the end of the name, as the var was empty,
i did :
ssh -v $server1 <<EOF
rm -rvf path1-on-remote-server1/*
cd path2-on-remote-server1
echo "enter build num once more: "
read bNum
unzip ../prepped-zip-file-$bNum.zip
exit
EOF
Any suggestions on how to achieve what i am after.
Thanks in advance

Are you sure this doesn't work?
ssh -v $server1 <<EOF
rm -rvf path1-on-remote-server1/*
cd path2-on-remote-server1
unzip ../prepped-zip-file-$buildNum.zip
exit
EOF
When I try it on my machine, with cat instead of ssh -v $server1 for testing, the variable does get substituted into the here-document, just as if the entire document had been on a command line. The remove shell never needs to know there was a variable in the first place.
Actually, though, you may want to give the remote command on the ssh command line rather than redirecting the standard input. This would be more robust in case some of the parts of it unexpectedly decide to try reading from stdin:
ssh -v $server1 "rm -rvf path1-on-remote-server1/*
cd path2-on-remote-server1
unzip ../prepped-zip-file-$buildNum.zip"
(Note that multi-line double-quoted strings are okay with bash).

#!/bin/sh
printf "Enter Build Number: "
read BUILD_NUM
cat << EOF | ssh $server1
hostname
echo "${BUILD_NUM}"
uptime
EOF
That works for me.

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#!bin/sh
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cd /home/FSTP/Folder1/
for file in "$FOLDER"*
<<EOF
cd /home/local/Folder1
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done
I know it's not right, but i've tried my best and if anyone can help me, i will appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
OpenSSH sftp is not very powerful client for such tasks. You would have to run it twice. First to collect list of files, use the list to generate list of commands, and execute those in a second run.
Something like this:
# Collect list of files
files=`sftp -b - user#example.com <<EOF
cd /source/folder
ls
EOF`
files=`echo $files|sed "s/.*sftp> ls//"`
# Use the list to generate list of commands for the second run
(
echo cd /source/folder
for file in $files; do
echo get $file
echo rename $file /backup/folder/$file
done
) | sftp -b - user#example.com
Before you run the script on production files, I suggest, you first output the generated command list to a file to check, if the results are as expected.
Just replace the last line with:
) > commands.txt
Maybe use SFTP internal command.
sftp get -r $remote_path $local_path
OR with the -f option to flush files to disk
sftp get -rf $remote_path $local_path

How to download files from my list with wget and ftp

I need to download only defined files with wget and ftp.
For example:
1.I retrieve all files using:
echo ls -R | ftp ftp://user:password#host > ./list.txt
2.Then I will parse the result and get a list with absolute paths for each file:
/path/to-the/file-1
/path/to-the/file-2
etc.
3.And now I need to download all files from the result list using wget and ftp.
And I don't want to create a separate FTP session for each file download process.
Please give your advice. Thank you.
Update:
For recursive download I'm using it: wget -r ftp://user:password#host:/ -nH -P /download/path. It works great, but I need to pass a file with a list of remote files for downloading via FTP with one FTP session.
Sorry, I missed the "single session" part when I commented. I think you need to have your script generate a second script to run a single FTP session.
So, your script will not do any FTP itself, it will just write another script that does the transfers. So, it will write a script that does this
ftp -n <SOMEADDRESS> <<EOS
quote USER <USERNAME>
quote PASS <PASSWORD>
bin
get file1 localname1
get file2 localname2
...
get fileN localnameN
quit
EOS
Then it will execute that script, by doing:
bash < thatScript
So your script will look like this:
#!/bin/bash
ScriptName=funkyFTPer
cat - <<END > $ScriptName
ftp -n 192.168.0.1 <<EOS
quote USER freddy
quote PASS frog
END
# Your selection code goes here ***PHNQZ***
echo get file1 localname1 >> $ScriptName
echo get file2 localname2 >> $ScriptName
echo get fileN localnameN >> $ScriptName
echo quit >> $ScriptName
echo EOS >> $ScriptName
echo "Now run bash < $ScriptName"
Then delete the script as it contains your password. Or you can put the password in your .netrc file.
As regards creating directories locally, you can do that in the first script using mkdir -p. The -p has the advantage that it creates all directories in between in one go and doesn't get upset if they already exist.
So, just looking at the area of code where it says ***PHNQZ*** above, let's say your code decides you need file freddy/frog/c.txt, you could do:
remotename="freddy/frog/c.txt"
localdir=${remotename%/*} # Get just directory part using "bash Parameter Substitution"
mkdir -p "$localdir" # make directory and all parts in between

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I'm trying to write a script that reads logs from 3 linux machines and writes the logs (with some kind of prefix) in one file.
My problem is that I can access to the file in order to see it, but when I try to write it doesn't work.
Working code
expect -c "
spawn ssh user#x.x.x.x \" tail -f my_file\"
expect {
\"*assword\" {send \"PASS\r\";}
}
expect eof
"
if I add
tail -f >> my_file.log
it doesn't work.
First off, I would highly recommend learning how to use SSH with keys so that you don't need a password.
Then, all you need to do is this:
ssh username#server 'tail -f filename' >> my_file.log
Your command
tail -f filename >> my_file.log
is being run on the remote. So my_file.log is on the remote. To get the output to a local file, move the >> my_file.log to the end of the expect script:
expect -c "..." >> my_file.log

SSH remote server - display only "echo" on output in terminal

I have bash script (for example):
ssh -t -t user#domain.com << EOF
cd /home/admin
mkdir test
echo 'Some text'
exit
EOF
Can I display only "echo" command in terminal? It is possible?
Now all commands are displayed.
Thank you
Specifying the commands on standard input with ssh -t causes the commands to be echoed back, but you don't have to do that.
ssh -t user#domain.com "
cd /home/admin
mkdir test
echo 'Some text'"
(The exit isn't really required or useful, so I left it out.)
Use single quotes if you want to prevent the local shell from interpolating variables etc in the string containing the commands.
To selectively display an individual command as well as its output, you can use something like
sh -vc 'echo \"Some text\"'
although the nested quoting can start getting on your nerves pretty quickly.

Shell script to compare remote directories

I have a shell script that I am using to compare directory contents. The script has to ssh to different servers to get a directory listing. When I run the script below, I am getting the contents of the server that I am logged into's /tmp directory listing and not that of the servers I am trying to ssh to. Could you please tell me what I am doing wrong?
The config file used in the script is as follows (called config.txt):
server1,server2,/tmp
The script is as follows
#!/bin/sh
CONFIGFILE="config.txt"
IFS=","
while read a b c
do
SERVER1=$a
SERVER2=$b
COMPDIR=$c
`ssh user#$SERVER1 'ls -l $COMPDIR'`| sed -n '1!p' >> server1.txt
`ssh user#$SERVER2 'ls -l $COMPDIR'`| sed -n '1!p' >> server2.txt
done < $CONFIGFILE
When I look at the outputs of server1.txt and server2.txt, they are both exactly the same - having the contents of /tmp of the server the script is running on (not server1 or 2). Doing the ssh +dir listing on command line works just fine. I am also getting the error "Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal". Adding the -t -t to the ssh command isnt helping either
Thank you
I have the back ticks in order to execute the command.
Backticks are not needed to execute a command - they are used to expand the standard output of the command into the command line. Certainly you don't want the output of your ssh commands to be interpreted as commands. Thus, it should work fine without the backticks:
ssh user#$SERVER1 "ls -l $COMPDIR" | sed -n '1!p' >>server1.txt
ssh user#$SERVER2 "ls -l $COMPDIR" | sed -n '1!p' >>server2.txt
(provided that double quotes to allow expansion of $COMPDIR are used).
first you need to generate keys to login to remote without keys
ssh-keygen -t rsa
ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub remote-host
then try to ssh without pass
ssh remote-host
then try to invoke in your script but first make sanity check
var1=$(ssh remote-host) die "Cannot connect to remote host" unless $var1;

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