Hello, That is what i usually do. But in this case the shell do not support linux commands like echo,&&,||
BR On 18 October 2013 15:03, Andreas Schneider <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 16 October 2013 08:22:39 Joao Pedro Almeida Pereira wrote: > > Hello, > > I am creating an application using libssh to connect against a remote > > server using the shell mode of the application. > > I need this to be shell like because i need to keep context of my > location > > and keep my connection open in order to ensure that i pass through a > > process of initialization only once. > > This takes me to a next problem, when i send a command via SSH the > > application need to be aware when the command finished executing and as i > > do not close the connection in the end nor i do a oneshot command i do > not > > receive the EOF to tell me that the execution ended. > > How can i do this? > > > > I came up with 2 solutions for this problem and i dislike both of them: > > 1. retrieve the pty in order to be able to search the output for the > prompt. > > This is not a good solution for me because my application will be be > > connecting against 4 distinct shell's that will have multiple prompts > > possible, and each shell can change is prompt. > > 2. Send a "random" string, like a command, after my command and check the > > output for the return of that string. > > This is not a good solution because i need to parse all the output > to > > find the end and my output is quite big for some commands that i will be > > executing and that will penalize the command execution > > > > ./myapplication && echo OK || echo KO > > Is normally the way to do it. > > > > -- andreas > > -- > Andreas Schneider GPG-ID: CC014E3D > www.cryptomilk.org [email protected] > > > -- -- ----- -------- João Pereira Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.bluetc.es
