Am 01.02.2012 22:07, schrieb Peter Blajev: > I have two CentOS5 systems server1 and server2. There is user peter on > server1 who can ssh to server2 using public ssh keys and no password is > needed. > > What I noticed is that running remote ssh commands in bash script breaks > while loops. > > ====== > #!/bin/sh > for i in server2 server2; do > echo "--> Start" > ssh peter@$i ls > echo "--> END" > done > > echo " server2 > server2" | \ > while read confLine; do > echo "--> $confLine" > ssh peter@$confLine ls > echo "--> END $confLine" > done > ==== > > The "for" loop in the script above will run twice but the "while" loop > below it will run only once. > > This is very simple to test and I've tried it on different systems > including CentOS6 and OpenSolaris with the same result. > > Any idea what would cause the ssh command to break the while loop? > > Thanks > Peter That has simply nothing to do with SSH. Compare following: echo "foo bar" | while read LINE; do echo $LINE; done and echo -e "foo\nbar" | while read $LINE; do echo $LINE; done Alexander _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos