I've used paramiko's exec_command with ls succesfully until I tried it with a list of files as an argument. My function is:
def jz_orion_ssh_sout_list(cmd):
with paramiko.SSHClient() as ssh:
ssh.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())
ssh.connect(orion['host'], username=orion['username'], password=orion['password'])
ssh_stdin, ssh_stdout, ssh_stderr = ssh.exec_command(cmd)
sout = ssh_stdout.readlines()
serr = ssh_stderr.readlines()
return sout
When cmd='ls -l /my/path/file.txt' it works fine, but when cmd='ls -l /my/path/file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt', it only returns file1.txt. The latter cmd run directly on the target server returns all 3 files.
How to make it work in paramiko?
PS. I've found another syntax which works in paramiko: cmd='ls -l /my/path/{file1.txt,file2.txt,file3.txt}' but still I'd like to know what causes the failure with beforementioned one.
It is your cmd issue:
For instance, I have 3 files under example folder:
➜ ls example
file1 file2 file4
file2 is not found:
➜ ls -l example/file1 file2
ls: file2: No such file or directory
-rw-r--r-- 1 haifzhan staff 391 28 Nov 10:23 example/file1
ls -l example/file1 file2 is telling ls file2 is under current directory other than under folder example.
If we run the command just for file1 and file2
➜ ls -l example/file[1-2]
-rw-r--r-- 1 haifzhan staff 391 28 Nov 10:23 example/file1
-rw-r--r-- 1 haifzhan staff 81 28 Nov 10:26 example/file2
Alternatively:
ls -l example/file1 example/file2
-rw-r--r-- 1 haifzhan staff 391 28 Nov 10:23 example/file1
-rw-r--r-- 1 haifzhan staff 81 28 Nov 10:26 example/file2
In your case ls -l /my/path/{file1.txt,file2.txt,file3.txt} works is that you are telling ls that all your files are under /my/path