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Jeremy_Hobbs_18
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Feb 02, 2015

using putty or plink to access bash and pass multiple commands

Hello All,

 

I hope you can help.

 

I am running 11.4.1 on a 6900.

 

I have a putty script that passes the -m (inputcommandsfile) and currently returns the output for the following commands list ltm virtual show ltm virtual list ltm pool

 

While this works I would like to change the command script to be bash tmsh list ltm virtual tmsh show ltm virtual | grep -B4 Avail tmsh list ltm pool exit quit

 

This would allow me to use the -B4 grep option from the bash utility. However when I try to pass these same types of commands in putty it responds with/usr/bin/tmsh: /usr/bin/tmsh: cannot execute binary file

 

If I login and type those commands manually from putty it works just fine. Any way to pass the command to drop into bash and get this output?

 

Thanks

 

application delivery
LTM
management
plink
putty
TMSH

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  • StephanManthey's avatar
    StephanManthey
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    Feb 02, 2015

    Hi Jeremy,

    the user needs so called "advanced shell" privileges. Perhaps you just provided access to "tmsh" and it cannot use the bash.

    Now a command file i.e. as follows can be used: 
    tmsh show ltm virtual | grep -B 4 -iE '^[[:blank:]]*availability.*(offline|unknown)'

    Thanks, Stephan