If you truly intend this as a bug report, you should file it at bugzilla.mindrot.org. On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 12:25:22 +0100, Vincenzo Romano wrote: > Short description: All comands sent to server in batch mode are being > echoed back along with prompt. > Software Version: "OpenSSH_7.9p1, OpenSSL 1.1.1 11 Sep 2018" (as > printed by ssh -V) > Server and client systems: ArchLinux x86_64 fully updated as of 2018-11-02. > > ## How to reproduce > > Provided that you have proper SSH key authentication in place, from > command line run: > echo "dir /var" | sftp -b - 0 > > ## Expected output > > /var/backups /var/cache /var/lib /var/local /var/lock > /var/log /var/mail /var/opt /var/puppet /var/run > /var/spool /var/tmp /var/www > > ## Actual output > > sftp> dir /var > /var/backups /var/cache /var/lib /var/local /var/lock > /var/log /var/mail /var/opt /var/puppet /var/run > /var/spool /var/tmp /var/www > > Please note the first line is the server prompt followed by the command echo. > > ## Workaround > > Expunge the first line from the client output > echo "dir /var" | sftp -b - 0 | tail -n +2 > > ## Notes > Batch mode is meant for script automation, not human operations, so > echoing the prompt and the commands doesn't make any sense and creates > problems while processing the output. > A possible solution that's also backward compatible with all scripts > using batch mode is to allow for a special prefix character to > commands to avoid any echoing, just like the "-" is used to avoid a > single failing command to terminate the client. Something like "@" or > "#" would be ok IMHO. > > -- > Vincenzo Romano - NotOrAnd.IT > Information Technologies > -- > NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS > _______________________________________________ > openssh-unix-dev mailing list > openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev -- Iain Morgan _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
