Using local variable on a remote machine

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

I'm writing a korn shell script where the user enters a variable and I have to create a directory remotely which contains the name of that variable.

Example.

print 'Please enter variable:'
read variable
ssh user@host 'mkdir before_$variable;'

Thank you.

2

try with double quote.

ssh user@host "mkdir before_$variable;"
3

it does make it read local variables in the ssh command, but I still need it to use other remote variables during the session.

4

You can escape the remote ones:

i.e.

ssh user@host "mkdir before_$variable; echo \$remote_variable"
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5

Thank you. This worked.