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. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx Usage: fortune -P [-f] -a [xsz] Q: file [rKe9] -v6[+] file1 ...
