On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 11:28:37AM +0100, Tom Brown wrote:
>  Hi
> 
>  I am sure the answer here is really easy but i am stuck!
> 
>  # mount | grep data | awk '{print$1,$2,$3}'
> 
>  gives me the info i require locally, however i need to execute this over 
>  about 1000 hosts so i run things remotely using ssh something like
> 
>  # MOUNTER=`ssh $i 'mount | grep data | awk '{print$1,$2,$3}''`
> 
>  however this fails as at the end of the line there are 2 ticks eg ' together 
>  -
> 
>  Can anyone offer me some syntax help please?
Well, you don't need to run the grep and awk on the other side:

MOUNTER=`ssh $i mount | awk '/data/{print $1,$2,$3}'`

But you can live without the call to mount, too:
MOUNTER=`ssh $i awk "'/data/{print $1,$2,$3}'" /etc/mtab`

-- 
lfr
0/0

Attachment: pgp1uB002Doex.pgp
Description: PGP signature

_______________________________________________
CentOS mailing list
CentOS@centos.org
http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Reply via email to