Doing a lot of work on remote Linux servers lately, lots of login in over SSH running commands logging out.

So wrote this simple script to use Ruby to send a single command or a file of commands to a Linux server over SSH. Needs some error trapping etc but functional at the moment.

It requires the Ruby Gem net-ssh installed.

#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'net/ssh'
require 'optparse'

opts = OptionParser.new
opts.on("-h HOSTNAME", "--hostname NAME", String, "Hostname of Server") { |v| @hostname = v }
opts.on("-u SSH USERNAME", "--username SSH USERNAME", String, "SSH Username of Server") { |v| @username = v }
opts.on("-p SSH PASSWORD", "--password SSH PASSWORD", String, "SSH Password of Server") { |v| @password = v }
opts.on("-c SHELL_COMMAND", "--command SHELL_COMMAND", String, "Shell Command to Execute") { |v| @cmd = v }
opts.on("-f FILE_COMMAND", "--command FILE_COMMAND", String, "File containing shell Commands to Execute") { |v| @fileCmd = v }
begin
  opts.parse!(ARGV)
rescue OptionParser::ParseError => e
  puts e
end
raise OptionParser::MissingArgument, "Hostname [-h]" if @hostname.nil?
raise OptionParser::MissingArgument, "SSH Username [-u]" if @username.nil?
raise OptionParser::MissingArgument, "SSH Password [-p]" if @password.nil?
raise OptionParser::MissingArgument, "Command to Execute [-c/-f]" if @cmd.nil? and @fileCmd.nil?

begin
    ssh = Net::SSH.start(@hostname, @username, :password => @password)
    if @cmd != nil then
        ssh.exec!(@cmd) do |ch, stream, data|
          if stream == :stderr
              puts "ERROR: #{data}"
          else
              puts data
          end
        end
    else
    puts "Processing file #{@fileCmd}"
    file = File.new(@fileCmd, "r")  
    file.each {|line| 
        ssh.exec!(line) do |ch, stream, data|
          if stream == :stderr
              puts "ERROR: #{data}"
          else
              puts data
          end
        end
        }
    file.close
    end
    ssh.close
rescue Exception => e
    puts "Unable to connect to #{@hostname} using #{@username}/#{@password}"
    puts e
end


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