On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 06:53:36AM -0800, gajendrasharma1 wrote: > a=10 > ssh -l $user $host "export myVar=$a; cd $myDir; ./myScript.sh" myDir isn't defined...? > this doesn't work, as probably the ssh shell might not understand the export > command. That depends on what shell $user has. If $user's shell is bash or ksh, the syntax you have here looks OK (assuming myDir is defined somewhere on the ssh CLIENT system, and you simply neglected to show us). If $user's shell is /bin/sh then "export foo=bar" is not necessarily going to work; it depends on which /bin/sh the system has. You're safer with "foo=bar; export foo". If $user's shell is csh or tcsh, then you need entirely different syntax. (And $user needs a swift kick, but that's a different story....) Something like "setenv myVar $a" should do. Note the lack of an "=" sign.
