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Exiting ssh -tt session

I am executing a script on a remote ssh host as follows:

ssh -tt $USER@somehost 'bash -s' < ./myscript.sh

Notice the pseudo tty -tt switch.

My problem is that after the script has finished running the ssh session is not ending. Typing exit doesn't do anything either. How do I make it exit?

Solution

  • You are missing an exit statement.

    I suspect the reason that the exit is necessary is because when you force allocation of a pty, the pty is expecting the input to be a terminal... Reading EOF from a terminal doesn't mean 'there is never, ever any more data to come' the way it does for a pipe / file - it just means that there is 'currently no more input from the user' - hence the hang... it's waiting for further input. 

    This input script (myscript.sh) 'hangs':

    echo "Hello World..."

    This doesn't:

    echo "Hello World..."
exit 0