Multiple remote SSH commands

Esser Emmerik

Hi there,

I am trying to figure out how to write down multiple SSH commands on the remote server. For now I created environment variables to make it less painfull to do a ssh login per command, but I prefer to open one SSH connection and then execute all the commands (more efficient).

My only working solution now is to create separate lines with SSH login and commands:

 - ssh $DEPLOY_USER@$DEPLOY_SERVER tar -xzf $DEPLOY_PATH/deployarchive.tar.gz --directory="$DEPLOY_PATH/folder" 

- ssh $DEPLOY_USER@$DEPLOY_SERVER wget --cache=off --output-document $DEPLOY_PATH/deploy.sh https://a-file-on-the-internet.sh

etc etc

 

I tried some varations (see below), but that leads to build failures as the SSH command is not working (interpreted as one string or command not remotely executed but on docker image)

 

Variation 1

- ssh $DEPLOY_USER@$DEPLOY_SERVER 'tar -xzf $DEPLOY_PATH/deployarchive.tar.gz --directory="$DEPLOY_PATH/folder"; wget --cache=off --output-document $DEPLOY_PATH/deploy.sh https://a-file-on-the-internet.sh;'

Variation 2

 - ssh $DEPLOY_USER@$DEPLOY_SERVER << EOF
              tar -xzf $DEPLOY_PATH/deploy.tar.gz --directory="$DEPLOY_PATH/folder";
              wget --cache=off --output-document $DEPLOY_PATH/deploy.sh https://a-file-on-the-internet.sh;
            EOF;

As I use ENV variables for most commands, I was not able to find a way to include those variables in the remote bash script, otherwise I had to execute only one bashscript to do all the tasks. And besides, when you put multiple commands in 1 bash script, you don't have the advantage of the step by step logging in bitbucket pipelines, as it is interpreted as 1 command.

 

Hope anyone has a solution!

 

Peter

 

Federico Garcia_s0x9td

Didn't you have any reply on this topic? I am trying to do the same, but I need all the commands to run in the same ssh connection