sed question?

[Allanm]

#ssh host1 sed '$d' /root/hosts > /etc/hosts
sed: -e expression #1, char 8: Extra characters after command

How to use sed thru ssh on a remote host?

Thanks,
Allan

[Patrick Wallek]

Have you tried quoting the command?

#ssh host1 "sed '$d' /root/hosts > /etc/hosts"

[Allanm]

Yes tried but didnt work.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Allan:

# ssh -n host1 'sed "$d" /root/hosts > /etc/hosts'

Regards!

...JRF...

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi (again) Allanm:

Sorry, that should be:

# ssh -n host1 'sed "\$d" /root/hosts > /etc/hosts'

Regards!

...JRF...

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Please remember to evaulate the answers you received, here, too:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1335006

Regards!

...JRF...

[Allanm]

Thanks James,

Question - Can you explain a little bit why \$d is needed for remote hosts ?

Allan.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Allanm:

> Question - Can you explain a little bit why \$d is needed for remote hosts ?

We escape the dollar-sign so that the shell doesn't attempt to evaluate $d as a variable, but rather leave that for 'sed' to interpret.

You can see this if you compare:

# sed "$d" /root/hosts

...and:

# sed "\$d" /root/hosts

...which is why if we wrote this to run locally, we could do:

# sed '$d' /root/hosts

...with the sinqle quotes so that the shell doesn't try to evaluate the $.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Allanm]

Exellent, Thanks JRF!