[OT] run command via ssh - problem

[Konstantin Svist]

On 11/04/2009 05:10 AM, Dan Track wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running a command like this:
>
> for i in server1 server2;do ssh root@$i "`hostname`";done.
>
> However the hostname command always outputs the hostname of the server
> that the above command is run from. I'd like to know how to run this
> hostname command so that it actually runs on server 1, server2 etc..
>
> Thanks
> Dan
>
>    

Content inside double quotes is evaluated by shell, so backtick 
expansion happens on localhost.
Use single quotes, instead, like so:

for i in server1 server2;do ssh root@$i '`hostname`';done


HTH