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primeQuestion
primeQuestion

Reputation: 51

Retrieving the result of a bash command run from ssh into a variable

The following command runs well when i run it localy on the dsired machine:

app_name=*some_proccess_name*
pid=`pgrep $app_name | tail -n 1`

But when i run it in the following way, from a remote pc using ssh it dosn't work:

pid=$(ssh $USER_NAME@$HOST_NAME "echo `pgrep $app_name | tail -n 1`")

The value of pid afterwards is just blank. I am not sure what's wrong (just to clarify i have tried several processes names that are all running on the target pc- that's not the problem ).

P.S when i run the command without echo, like that, i just get stuck inside the remote pc and have to use exit in order to get unstuck and return to my local pc:

pid=$(ssh tester@mir1 "`pgrep indicator-apple | tail -n 1`")

Upvotes: 0

Views: 114

Answers (1)

Diego Torres Milano
Diego Torres Milano

Reputation: 69396

Less is more

pid=$(ssh tester@mir1 pgrep indicator-apple \| tail -n 1)

Upvotes: 3

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