On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Alex Bligh wrote: > I'm sure this should be an easy question, but from the ssh client manpage: > > EXIT STATUS > ssh exits with the exit status of the remote command or with 255 if an error occurred. > > > Let's say I'm using > ssh server.example.com /usr/bin/do/something > in (e.g.) a bash script. > > How can one differentiate between a failure of ssh to connect to the host and the > command in question returning an error? I need to detect both, and differentiate > between them. ssh server.example.com /usr/bin/do/something r=$? if [ $r -eq 0 ] ; then echo success elif [ $r -eq 255 ] ; then echo ssh failed else echo command failed fi _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
