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David
David

Reputation: 11

Have global variable filled in by remote machine when connecting through ssh

I'm having trouble to fill in a variable when connecting to a remote machine through ssh.

I'm trying to execute the following statement in a bash script:

ssh user@host '$INSTALL_DIR/script/replaceAll.sh'" $orig_val $new_val";

$INSTALL_DIR is a global variable on both machines with a different value on each, while $orig_val and $new_val are variables calculated in the script itself. I'm using SunOS 5.10

The problem is that $INSTALL_DIR uses the local value, while it should be using the remote value. Can you tell me what i'm doing wrong here?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 899

Answers (2)

Dennis Williamson
Dennis Williamson

Reputation: 360375

Escape the dollar sign:

ssh user@host '\$INSTALL_DIR/script/replaceAll.sh'" $orig_val $new_val"

Upvotes: 2

chommie
chommie

Reputation: 1

your shell's evaluating the variable before passing it to ssh, you need to force the shell to treat the arguments as pure text

Upvotes: 0

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