List contents of file on remote server

[Scot L. Harris]

On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 21:32, Ben Halicki wrote:
> Hi all,
>  
> Anyone know a quick and easy way to list the contents of a file on a
> remote machine?  Similar to the cat command, but the file is sitting
> on another server.  I was thinking about using scp to copy the file to
> the local machine first, then using cat, but thought there might be a
> way of performing this in one step?
>  
> Thanks in advance,
>  
How about this:

ssh computernameorIP 'cat /etc/hosts'

Replace compternameorIP with the name of the machine you want to
access.  You can execute what ever you want in the command portion, in
this case I just cat'ed the /etc/hosts file on the remote machine.

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