SSH commands on separate lines: same SSH session?

[Hawkeye_Parker]

I know we’ve had discussions about this before, but I can’t find any documentation on this, and I just want to make sure I’m remembering correctly. If I did something like:

#! REMOTE::SSH
foo=“bar”
echo $foo

There is no guarantee that the second command will print ‘bar’. Correct? I.e., in the SSH section, if commands are on separate lines, they might or might not run within the same SSH session.

(I know I can do this in one line – this is just a simple example to hopefully make the question easy to understand).

I will document the answer in the wiki.

[Hawkeye_Parker]

@Yoni_Leitersdorf sorry to bug you about this, but I’m guessing you know the answer to my question?

[Vasileios_Bouloukos]

Hi @Hawkeye_Parker

I think you refer to the next

Run mutliple FortiOS commands in an awk script

I am working on a awk fortigate script where I need to run multiple FortiOS commands. No multi-step, just to get the output from more than one FortiOS commands. I receive an error message when I run the parser with direct input from a fortigate. I have an other script with one FortiOS command and it works. Plz, check attached file. I tried also to use ';' to separate the FortiOS commands but it does not work. #! REMOTE::SSH config global ; diagnose sys ntp status Any ideas? O…

We faced this issue with the fortigate firewalls The received answer was more or less as you described it.
“There is no guarantee that the second command will print ‘bar’. Correct? I.e., in the SSH section, if commands are on separate lines, they might or might not run within the same SSH session.”

[Yoni_Leitersdorf]

Yep @Vasileios_Bouloukos got it right @Hawkeye_Parker

[Hawkeye_Parker]

@Vasileios_Bouloukos @Yoni_Leitersdorf Thanks guys: documented here:
https://indeni.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKP/pages/560103453/Remote+SSH+Shell+Command+Guide