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FreeBSD ssh with wildcards
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| Dave Ranney 2006-01-06, 2:59 am |
| Hi,
I'm on FreeBSD 4.3 and I'm running into what seems like strange behavior
with ssh.
When I do
ssh remotemachine ls /path/to/dir
it returns a list of .html files as I expect.
When I do
ssh remotemachine ls /path/to/dir/*.html
it says
ls: /path/to/dir/*.html: No such file or directory
When I run it with the -v flag I see the command being sent properly
with no forced command.
I tried escaping the * just in case it was trying to expand locally, but
that didn't help.
Any idea what's going on? Am I missing something obvious?
Thanks,
Dave
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| Michael Tosch 2006-01-06, 5:57 pm |
| Dave Ranney wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm on FreeBSD 4.3 and I'm running into what seems like strange behavior
> with ssh.
>
> When I do
>
> ssh remotemachine ls /path/to/dir
>
> it returns a list of .html files as I expect.
>
> When I do
>
> ssh remotemachine ls /path/to/dir/*.html
>
> it says
>
> ls: /path/to/dir/*.html: No such file or directory
>
> When I run it with the -v flag I see the command being sent properly
> with no forced command.
>
> I tried escaping the * just in case it was trying to expand locally, but
> that didn't help.
>
It normally does and \* should work.
Or
ssh remotemachine "ls /path/to/dir/*.html"
which is better readable IMHO.
The error message indicates that the remote machine's login shell is CSH.
Perhaps noglob is set, and you must do
ssh remotemachine "unset noglob; ls /path/to/dir/*.html"
--
Michael Tosch @ hp : com
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| Dave Ranney 2006-01-07, 5:57 pm |
| Michael Tosch wrote:
> Dave Ranney wrote:
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> It normally does and \* should work.
> Or
> ssh remotemachine "ls /path/to/dir/*.html"
> which is better readable IMHO.
>
> The error message indicates that the remote machine's login shell is CSH.
> Perhaps noglob is set, and you must do
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> ssh remotemachine "unset noglob; ls /path/to/dir/*.html"
Your suggestion led me to the problem. The shell for the user on the
remote machine wasn't csh but rather a proprietary limited shell which
wasn't globbing.
Thanks for the help. I thought I was going crazy.
- Dave
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