Re: nested escape chars in a shell command
I can't seem to get that to work either.
child =
pexpect.spawn('/bin/sh',args=['-c','/usr/bin/ssh','-t','-o','StrictHostKeyChecking
no',host,command,'|','awk','{print %s:$0}'%host], timeout=30)
Complains its getting the wrong arguments to ssh.
Eli
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Re: nested escape chars in a shell command
I think you're mistaken about how 'sh -c' works. The next argument after -c
is
the script, and following arguments are the positional arguments. (what, you've
never used -c in conjunction with positional arguments? me either!)
Example:
$ /bin/sh -c 'echo $#' a b c
# i.e., a blank line
$ /bin/sh -c 'echo $# 0=$0 1=$1 2=$2' a b c
2 0=a 1=b 2=c
# i.e., a, b, c went to positional arguments
Additionally, unless pexpect.spawn behaves differently than os.spawnv,
-c is actually going to /bin/sh's argv[0], and you end up trying to execute
/usr/bin/ssh as a shell script, which is probably not what you want!
def shellquote(arg):
# shell quoting technique I first read about on the 'git' development list
# Everything is safely quoted inside a ''-quoted string, except a ' itself,
# which can be written as '\'' (a backslash-escaped ' outside of the
''-quoted
# string)
return ' + arg.replace(', '\\'') + '
def shellquotelist(args):
return .join([shellquote(arg) for arg in args])
# XXX: you may wish to assemle 'command' using shellquotelist too
command1 = shellquotelist(['/bin/sh', '-c','/usr/bin/ssh','-t','-o',
'StrictHostKeyChecking no',host,command])
command2 = shellquotelist(['awk','{print %s:$0}'%host])
child = \
pexpect.spawn('/bin/sh',
args=['/bin/sh', '-c', command1 + | + command2],
timeout=30)
Finally, in your case the use of awk would seem to be gratuitous. Instead,
prepend the hostname to each line when you read the lines in. (this could easy
or hard depending on the structure of the code where you read the output
generated by child---if you do it with readline() or by iterating over the file,
it is probably easy)
Jeff
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Re: nested escape chars in a shell command
Eli Criffield wrote:
I'm try run an ssh command in pexpect and I'm having trouble getting
everything escaped to do what i want.
Here's a striped down script showing what i want to do.
--
#!/usr/bin/env python
import pexpect
import sys
if len(sys.argv) 3:
print ssh.py host command
sys.exit(1)
host = sys.argv[1]
command = sys.argv[2]
child = pexpect.spawn('''sh -x -c stty -echo ; ssh -t -o
'StrictHostKeyChecking no' %s '%s' |awk '{print \%s:\$0}'
'''%(host,command,host), timeout=30)
child.setlog(sys.stdout)
child.expect(pexpect.EOF)
--
The problem in the pexpect.spawn line, It doesn't like the \%s:\ part
of the awk command. This is necessary so i can see what server the
command is running on, In the full script the command will be running
on about 100 servers at a time.
It parses out into:
+ stty -echo
+ ssh -t -o 'StrictHostKeyChecking no' testserver date
+ awk '{print testserver:$0}'
It totally strips out the
The stty -echo is required because part of what the program does is it
tries to remember any passwords that are asked for, So you can run a
command like su -c id and it will remember roots password for the
next
server and try that. -echo keeps the root password from being echoed to
the screen.
The second problem with the command is while su -c id works (taking
out the awk part) running any command with more then one word after the
-c in su fails, It strips out the '
like so:
./sshexpect testserver su -c 'ls -l /root'
+ stty -echo
+ ssh -t -o 'StrictHostKeyChecking no' testserver 'su -c ls' -l /root
su: user /root does not exist
I have tried every combination of escaping i can think of can i can't
get either problem solved.
Any ideas?
Eli
You can pass the argument list of your command to
pexpect.spawn(comm, args=['arg1','arg2'])
If the argument list is empty, pexpect tries to get the arguments
from the comm you passed to it. I guess this gives you problems.
Try using the args parameter.
Simplest would be args=[' '] just to avoid the processing.
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nested escape chars in a shell command
I'm try run an ssh command in pexpect and I'm having trouble getting
everything escaped to do what i want.
Here's a striped down script showing what i want to do.
--
#!/usr/bin/env python
import pexpect
import sys
if len(sys.argv) 3:
print ssh.py host command
sys.exit(1)
host = sys.argv[1]
command = sys.argv[2]
child = pexpect.spawn('''sh -x -c stty -echo ; ssh -t -o
'StrictHostKeyChecking no' %s '%s' |awk '{print \%s:\$0}'
'''%(host,command,host), timeout=30)
child.setlog(sys.stdout)
child.expect(pexpect.EOF)
--
The problem in the pexpect.spawn line, It doesn't like the \%s:\ part
of the awk command. This is necessary so i can see what server the
command is running on, In the full script the command will be running
on about 100 servers at a time.
It parses out into:
+ stty -echo
+ ssh -t -o 'StrictHostKeyChecking no' testserver date
+ awk '{print testserver:$0}'
It totally strips out the
The stty -echo is required because part of what the program does is it
tries to remember any passwords that are asked for, So you can run a
command like su -c id and it will remember roots password for the
next
server and try that. -echo keeps the root password from being echoed to
the screen.
The second problem with the command is while su -c id works (taking
out the awk part) running any command with more then one word after the
-c in su fails, It strips out the '
like so:
./sshexpect testserver su -c 'ls -l /root'
+ stty -echo
+ ssh -t -o 'StrictHostKeyChecking no' testserver 'su -c ls' -l /root
su: user /root does not exist
I have tried every combination of escaping i can think of can i can't
get either problem solved.
Any ideas?
Eli
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