Thanks, Iain. I am willing to hear from other users whether anyone else sees this as a bug before filing it. -- Vincenzo Romano Il giorno ven 2 nov 2018, 20:03 Iain Morgan <imorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto: > 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 > Il giorno ven 2 nov 2018, 20:03 Iain Morgan <imorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto: > 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
