How do I execute a script on remote server called server2.example.com from my PC?
You can use ssh client (part of most UNIX / BSD / OS X and Linux distros) as follows to run any command or script on remote UNIX or Linux server as follows:
ssh user@server2.example.com script.nameYou can execute the date command as follows on remote server:
ssh user@server2.example.com date
You may need to specify full script path. In this example, run /root/backup.sh script as follows:
ssh user@server2.example.com /root/backup.sh
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{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }
This is very good and helpful stuff.
Thanks a lot
Yong Cao
How can I add Password to this “ssh user@server2.example.com date”
jay – you could try “passwordless ssh”. There’s stuff on Google about that.
will this work if the script on the remote is interative ? If not can anyone give more suggestions.
Thank you