[CentOS] ssh remote execute awk problem

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"
>>
>> JD
>
> 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.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com