sh files question

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 15:18 -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
> Anna EdwARds wrote:
> > I have a question. Is sh capable of being run on one computer (say 
> > anna-desktop), not through ssl, but open an ssl to anna-router while 
> > running? Say its the following
> > ssl anna-router
> > username ash1574
> > password ******** [the password is in there]
> > apt-get moo
> >  
> > Is this possible in an sh file or do i have to use the broom myself?
> >
> Not sure about 'ssl' but with ssh/scp you can do this easily.  First 
> copy the file you want to run to the remote machine. 
> scp localFile remoteMachine:pathToNewFile/
> then you do an
> ssh remoteMachine pathToNewFile/fileNAME
> see man ssh and man scp for more information.
> google around and you can even have it set up to not prompt you for a 
> password. 

You do not even need to copy the file to the remote machine. Do:

ssh remote_host sh <file

Where file is a file of shell commands.
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