"cut" doesn't supress unwanted fields

[gosuc2000]

Hi gurus,

I have only little experience in shell-programming, but
nevertheless, this problem is important for me to be solved.

Inside a script I want to extract one value out of one line from the vmstat -command via ssh to a remote system

vmstat -P under TRU64 UNIX prints dozends of lines about memory-usage, like vmstat -m under Linux).
The COMMANDLINE provides the correct result , like here:

# ssh -l root <remote-ip> vmstat -P|grep -e ''Memory =''|cut -d = -f 2

But things go wrong inside my script:
free=`ssh -l $user $1 vmstst -P|grep -e ''Memory =''|cut -d = -f 2`

(where $user=root and $1=IP-Addr. $free is where I want this one value to be stored)

What I get when I start my script is the whole pile of lines that vmstat -P prints out, as if I didn't use |cut .. at all.

Why does the command-line work correctly and why gets everything printed when I use the script ?

Any help is apreciated.
Thanks in advance for your time.

Regards,
Fred

 

[gosuc2000]

Sorry, flames on me....

when comparing the text in my post with my script, I noticed I put the "|" -Symbol not at the correct place.

Maybe I just worked too long on hat, so sometimes you just don't see the easy things.

Fred