[BostonMACOSX]

quick question which I just can't figure out.
If I want to ssh to a foreign machine run ifconfig and grep out some of the information and then write it to a local text file i'm thinking:

ssh username@host `ifconfig en0` | grep ether > test.txt

I always get 'ambiguous input redirect'.

Any Ideas on how to correct this.

Thanks

Robert
Bostonmacosx

[kampl]

You can use RSA authentication instead so that you don't need to enter a password. Check out Macwrite Article 1 and Macwrite Article 2 . I used to do this to sync up CVS trees between machines. The only other thing I can think of is to use expect code.

[BostonMACOSX]

I can get to the remote machine just can't get the information back to the local machine.

[Lordie]

You are so close!

Don't use backticks, just encapsulate your request in single quotes like this:

ssh foo@bar 'ls -la' |grep baz > out.txt

When in doubt, the -v option is your friend. Doing something like

ssh -v foo@bar `ifconfig en0`

will show you exactly what command you're sending to the server, which in this case would be the output of ifconfig on your local machine