[ale] bash script problem

[hooterpincher at gmail.com (Charles Shapiro)]

Oh, wait, you're not missing it.

Like the man said.

-- CHS


On 12/15/06, timothy at meanor.net <timothy at meanor.net> wrote:
>
> Try getting rid of the backticks around $CMD.
>
> -Tim
>
> >>Below is a small script that i use to check the status of ClamAV's
> >>daily.cvd file on a bunch of servers.  This works for all remote servers
> >>listed in ~/.hosts, but if the host equals `hostname` the command fails
> >>to execute with the error "line 1: if: command not found".  Now, if I
> >>remove the "if ..." logic in CMD and replace it just with "ls -al ...."
> >>then the command succeeds for all hosts including the local machine it
> >>is run on.  Any ideas on why the "if" fails?
> >>
> >>--------------------
> >>#!/bin/sh
> >>
> >>CMD="if [ -e /var/lib/clamav/daily.cvd ]; then ls
> >>-al /var/lib/clamav/daily.cvd; else echo; fi"
> >>
> >>me=`hostname`
> >>
> >>for host in `cat ~/.hosts`; do
> >>   echo -n "$host       ";
> >>   if [ $host = $me ]; then
> >>        `$CMD`;
> >>   else
> >>       ssh $host $CMD;
> >>   fi
> >>done
> >>---------------------
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>
> >>-Jim P.
> >>
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