topic Re: viewing remote file in Operating System - HP-UX

viewing remote file

himacs — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:19:46 GMT

Hi admins,

I have established ssh passwordless authentication between 2 servers.I can login/scp between servers w/o p/w.Now i want to view serverA:/tmp/test from server B.

gcc@task:/home/gcc>cat gcc@x.x.x.x:/home/gcc/file
cat: Cannot open gcc@x.x.x.x:/home/gcc/file: No such file or directory

what command i should fire to view.

Regards
himacs

Re: viewing remote file

Jeff_Traigle — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:31:29 GMT

ssh x.x.x.x 'cat /home/gcc/file'

Re: viewing remote file

himacs — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:44:55 GMT

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the response.Your command doing only direct ssh login to other server.I want to view the file w/o logging in to server A.

Regards
himacs

Re: viewing remote file

Patrick Wallek — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:58:14 GMT

>>I want to view the file w/o logging in to server A.

How do you expect to do that? How can you look at a file without somehow logging into the server?

The command that was given above will connect to the remote server, cat the file, and then disconnect.

That is the most expedient way to do what you require.

You cannot do this directly with 'cat' or 'more' or 'less' because those have absolutely no idea what the 'user@server:file' syntax means. Those utilities will just assume it is a local file and error as you have seen.

Re: viewing remote file

Dennis Handly — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:58:35 GMT

>I want to view the file w/o logging in to server A.

Then you should be using NFS.