what is wrong with remsh? am I nuts? Please help...

[Trever Furnish]

If I do this:
remsh infpap1 /bin/sh <<-EOT
/usr/sbin/fstyp /dev/vg00/lvol8
EOT

I get this, which is as expected:
vxfs


Similarly (same thing with variable assignment), this works:
remsh infpap1 /bin/sh <<-EOT
filetype=`/usr/sbin/fstyp /dev/vg00/lvol8`
echo \$filetype
EOT

Then I get the same output:
vxfs


And if I do it again with a different volume:
remsh infpap1 /bin/sh <<-EOT
/usr/sbin/fstyp /dev/vg00/xvol1
EOT

I still get the expected output:
vxfs

BUT (and it's driving me insane), if I do it using the variable assignment for that other filesystem, it BREAKS!!! Why?!

remsh infpap1 /bin/sh <<-EOT
filetype=`/usr/sbin/fstyp /dev/vg00/xvol1`
echo \$filetype
EOT

...produces the following broken output:
/dev/vg00/xvol1: No such file or directory

I'm going to go suck my thumb for a while - if anyone can point out my error, I'll be ever so grateful...

[Martin Johnson]

Did you make a typo when typing in "/dev/vg00/xvol1"? Sometimes using the backspace just backspaces over the character (not delete it) so the line contains which would cause the "No such file or directory" error.

HTH
Marty

[Stef Van Vlierberghe · Accepted solution]

try:

echo`hostname`
aka
echo $(hostname)

and you will understand.

The `` aka $() needs to be \-ed too to be evaluated by the remote shell.

[Trever Furnish]

But I thought ...

But the quoting done by <<-EOT...

But ...

D'OH!!!

Thanks. :-)

[harry d brown jr]

Why not this:

remsh infpap1 "export filetype=\`/usr/sbin/fstyp /dev/vg00/xvol1\`; echo \$filetype"

??

live free or die
harry