If you use a bash shell script that does an ssh command within a while-loop, you may encounter that the ssh command will break out of the while-loop, and that the script doesn't complete all the intended ssh commands. An example of a script is below:
# cat hostsfile
server1
server2
# cat script
cat hostsfile | while read server ; do
echo $server
ssh $server uptime
done
# ./script
server1
16:19:22 up 11 days, 22:30, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
As you can see in the example above; the script should run a ssh command for all files in the file "hostsfile". Instead, it stops after the first one.
This can be very easily resolved, by adding the "-n" option for the ssh command, as follows:
# cat script
cat hostsfile | while read server ; do
echo $server
ssh -n $server uptime
done
# ./script
server1
16:19:22 up 11 days, 22:30, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
server2
15:20:56 up 11 days, 22:32, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
