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--- quickreference:unix [2019/09/24 21:32] – rodolico
+++ quickreference:unix [2020/01/18 19:25] – rodolico
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 This is just a location where I store various commands I found handy for Unix.
+===== Systems Administration =====
+==== Grab Data via SSH ====
+I needed to grab the output from dmidecode for a bunch of machines. This would have been a good place for something like puppet, but we don't have it fully deployed. However, I have ssh access to most of the machines, so I was trying to figure out how to do it. I wanted the resulting filename to be `hostname -f`.dmidecode, ie the full hostname of the server with .dmidecode at the end. In the following, HOSTNAME is something that ssh can get to.
+<code bash>
+ssh HOSTNAME 'hostname -f ; sudo -S dmidecode' >aaee && FNAM=$(head -1 aaee) ; sed '1d' aaee > $FNAM.dmidecode
+</code>
+Dave came up with most of this, then I modified it for my use. Basically, he is returning the hostname and the output of dmidecode to a local temp file named aaee. If that works, then grab the first line into variable FNAM. Then send everything but the first line to the filename $FNAM.dmidecode.
+Note, since dmidecode requires root privileges, I had to use sudo to get it to work. sudo wants a terminal unless you pass  the -S parameter, in which case it prints the prompt on STDERR and waits for input. That input is not blanked, so it is visible on your monitor.
 ===== Disk Management =====