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How To Execute SSH and SCP in Batch Mode (Only when Passwordless login is enabled)

by Ramesh Natarajan on October 28, 2009

When you have the password-less login enabled, you may be either using SSH to execute command in the batch mode on a remote machine or using SCP to copy files from/to the remote machine.

If there are some issues with the password less login, your batch program may end up in a loop or timeout.

In this article, let us review how instruct ssh/scp to do the operation only if you can do without waiting for password.
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5 Basic Linux SSH Client Commands

by Ramesh Natarajan on May 27, 2008

OpenSSH

Let us review the following 5 basic command line usage of the ssh client.

  1. Identify SSH client version
  2. Login to remote host
  3. Transfer Files to/from remote host
  4. Debug SSH client connection
  5. SSH escape character usage: (Toggle SSH session, SSH session statistics etc.)

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