ssh command with eval?

[bgreen]

Hi,


I am writting a dynamic script to go to several hosts and i have hit a road block. I want to check and see if a directory exists on another server. I ask for the environment and I ask for the path. The path would be a "env" variable (ie. $COMMON_TOP). I try to run the following code and it only work on "PROD" but I would like it to also check on other local hosts/env's using ssh. Any suggestion? Here is a snippet of code.

print -n "\n What environment file copied from (PROD): "
read FRENV (ie. PROD)

FRLOWER=`echo $FRENV | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'`
FRUPPER=`echo $FRENV | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'`

case ${FRLOWER} in
"conv"|"train"|"patch"|"devl"|"intf")
FRHOST=p690lp4
;;
"prod")
FRHOST=p690lp1
;;
esac

print -n "\n Path to get file: " (ie. $COMMON_TOP)[\b]
read FRPATH
eval FRPATH="${FRPATH}" (ssh statement here????)
echo ${FRPATH} (OUTOUT -> /u2/oracle/prodcomn)

 

[Annihilannic]

If you ssh somehost command it won't run the .profile (or .bash_profile, or .login depending on which shell you use), so you will have to do that manually if that is where the environment variable is defined, e.g.

[tt]ssh hosname ". ./.profile ; echo ${FRPATH}"[/tt]

Annihilannic.

 

[bgreen]

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunatly we have 4 environments on the box I am trying to get the path. We run a script at initial login to set environments.

 

[Annihilannic]

So run that script instead of .profile using the method I suggested?

How do you usually select which of the 4 environments on to use on that that box... does it prompt you when you log in or something?

Annihilannic.

 

[bgreen]

It asks for a number selection. This is in a menu form.

1. CONV Apps env
2. CONV 9i DB env

etc....

 

[Annihilannic]

In that case expect may be the tool for this job.

Annihilannic.