On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:54:21 -0400, Kenneth Nellis wrote: > > FWIW, I see the same behavior, but not just Cygwin, but also on > a Red Hat Linux installation, so I guess it's more of a bash/ssh > issue than one with Cygwin.
There are 2 issues here, One is ssh's, the other is with sh/bash. None is Cygwin specific, i.e. it is OFFTOPIC. On Friday, August 04, 2006 10:01 AM, BC wrote: BC> If file hostlist contains: BC> hosta BC> hostb BC> hostc BC> BC> then execute this shell script: BC> while read host BC> do BC> ssh $host ls -al .profile BC> done < hostlist BC> BC> the while loop executes one time and quits. The problem is that `ssh' read stdin. To overcome this change it to: ssh $host ls -al .profile < /dev/null A second possible problem is that ssh may exit with error, the solution is to add set +e (in separate line) before the ssh line. Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D <http://www.keyserver.net/> Better Safe Than Sorry -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/