[CentOS] grep contents of file on remote server
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Sep 24 18:08:26 UTC 2010
On 9/24/2010 12:50 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am attempting to grep the contents of a key file I have SCP'd to a
> remote server. I am able to cat it:
>
> [code]
> [bluethundr at LBSD2:~]$:ssh root at sum1 grep `cat /root/id_rsa.pub`
Put single quotes around the whole command you want to send to the
remote. Otherwise your local shell is going to process the backtick
expansion before anything else. And grep is just as capable of reading
the file as cat anyway.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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