scripting issue
Mauricio Vergara Ereche
mave at nic.cl
Wed Aug 9 15:08:43 UTC 2006
El Miércoles, 9 de Agosto de 2006 11:02, Tom Brown escribió:
> Hi
Hi!
> If i am locally on a box the following works fine
>
> ROOTDEV=`cat /boot/grub/grub.conf | grep "^\#.*root\=" | awk '{print
> $5}'`
>
> but if i put this into a script to run from another host it fails eg
>
> ssh $HOST 'ROOTDEV=`cat /boot/grub/grub.conf | grep "^\#.*root\=" | awk
> '{print $5}'`'
> awk: cmd. line:1: {print
> awk: cmd. line:1: ^ unexpected newline or end of string
>
> seems the space in the print $5 upsets things - anyone know how to
> escape this space out so it will work?
I did this... and it just work fine.
[root at funk ~]# LALA=$(ssh localhost cat /boot/grub/grub.conf |
grep "^\#.*root\=" | awk '{print $5}')
root at localhost's password:
[root at funk ~]# echo $LALA
root=/dev/sda9
The $HOST does it have bash?
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