On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, gajendrasharma1 wrote: >a=10 >ssh -l $user $host "export myVar=$a; cd $myDir; ./myScript.sh" > >this doesn't work, as probably the ssh shell might not understand the export >command. hi, this should definitely work since ssh knows nothing about that, it's just about the remote shell that is run with -c "<the code>"; if you expand the variable locally (which you did in the example above) it's ok. however, you can also use SendEnv/AcceptEnv with OpenSSH. this just works for me: $ cat test.sh #!/bin/sh echo $a $ ssh localhost "export a=xx; ./test.sh" xx the same with 'ssh localhost "a=xx ./test.sh"' J. -- Jan Pechanec
