Re: Question about ssh no login

On 28 Apr 2007 00:48:22 -0700, sk8terg1rl wrote:

sk8terg1rl@home:~/.ssh> cat test
ssh sk8terg1rl@xxxxxxxxxx << EOF
ls
exit
EOF

By the way, exactly what is "<< EOF" for? The above script still works
if I change either EOF to anything else (even non-matching) but stops
working if I remove the first EOF

That is a "here document" indicator and they need to match.
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/here-docs.html#HEREDOCREF

For extra points, read
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html
.

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