Hi:

I’ve run across a strange problem that I’ve tracked down to Modules when

using ssh. Example:

bash-3.2$ foo=`ssh tewks-cc1 date '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S'`

bash-3.2$ echo $foo

20090924073725

bash-3.2$ echo "$foo" | wc

      1       1      69

Note that “$foo” thinks there are 69 charcters in the string??? Going a bit further:

bash-3.2$ bar=`ssh cc1 date '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S'`

bash-3.2$ printf "<%s>\n" "$bar" | cat -v

<^[]2;cc1:/home/tlynch^G^[]1;cc1:/home/tlynch^G20090924100032>

This is placing my prompt into the “$bar” variable. Now for full disclosure I use

“tcsh” as my shell and write scripts in “bash”, but the same thing happens

in tcsh:

% set foo = `ssh hwlinux40 date '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S'`

tlynch@hwlinux:/home/tlynch[109]% echo $foo

20090924110420

tlynch@hwlinux:/home/tlynch[110]% echo $foo | wc

      1       1      69

When I comment out the Modules portion in my .cshrc this works fine. It also works fine

just on the command line with Modules:

% set foo = `date '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S'`

tlynch@hwlinux:/home/tlynch[112]% echo $foo

20090924110627

tlynch@hwlinux:/home/tlynch[113]% echo $foo | wc

      1       1      15

but when using “ssh” (or “rsh”) my prompt gets placed into the variable. Any ideas what is

going wrong here?

Thanks

  Tom

Tom Lynch
HW Tools Engineer | Hardware Tools

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