Les Mikesell wrote: > On 3/17/2011 8:31 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> >>> Quote the whole command and backslash the command quotes... >>> ssh root at localhost "awk '/processor/{count[\"proc\"]++}; END{print >>> count[\"proc\"] } ' /proc/cpuinfo" >> >> Or do the processing locally and stay away from proc nuttiness, >> without mucking with ssh and awk. >> >> grep ^processor /proc/cpuinfo | wc -l >> >> Or: >> >> ssh -l $TARGETUSER $TARGETHOST "[ -e /proc/cpuinfo ] -a grep >> ^processor | wc -l" > > Or, more extremely - if you are doing much of this kind of remote > inventory checking, you might consider running ocsinventory-ng with > agents on the nodes. Yes. We use ocsinventory here. Warning: there are a few systems that ocsinventory, or at least the version we put on last year, would literally crash or hang the system. mark