simple explanation about ssh ls *...

[h3nd]

Hi guys,

I was just wondering about doing ssh.

I was in prod atm and I did
ls -l ~/Script/*

It came up with my list of file right ?

After that I did
ssh ypdrp01 ls -l ~/Script/*

It came up with this

ls: /home/t003947/Script/RemoveBackupData.ksh: No such file or directory
ls: /home/t003947/Script/StatusReport.ksh: No such file or directory
ls: /home/t003947/Script/TechStatusReport.ksh: No such file or directory-rwxr-xr-x    1 t003947  marsprod      621 Aug 10 17:21 /home/t003947/Script/CheckMissingFiles.ksh

So whatever file in Prod but not in DR, they will show me no such file or directory.

Seems they did comparison even I didn't ask to, could you guys give some light why this happen ?

Thx

 

[p5wizard]

Use quotes to hide the shell metacharacters from the local shell (in your case the * is expanded by the local shell to a list of files it finds locally in your Script directory, then that list is used with ls to look for the same files on the remote server, some of the files the remote ls finds, others it doesn't):

ssh ypdrp01 "ls -l ~/Script/*"

or simply leave out the asterisk

ls -l ~/Script
ssh ypdrp01 ls -l ~/Script



HTH,

p5wizard