Execute a script over ssh using Node.JS and pipe to and from it
npm install git+https://github.com/ipburger/ssh-exec.js.git
This fork merges the most helpful commits across github on ssh-exec
- Occasional truncated stdout
- ssh agent forwarding
var exec = require('ssh-exec')
// using ~/.ssh/id_rsa as the private key
exec('ls -lh', '[email protected]').pipe(process.stdout)
// or using the more settings
exec('ls -lh', {
user: 'ubuntu',
host: 'my-remote.com',
key: myKeyFileOrBuffer,
password: 'my-user-password'
}).pipe(process.stdout)
// or if you want to pipe some data to the remote process
process.stdin
.pipe(exec('echo try typing something; cat -', '[email protected]'))
.pipe(process.stdout)Optionally there is a callback api as well
exec('ls -lh', '[email protected]', function (err, stdout, stderr) {
console.log(err, stdout, stderr)
})Look at the source.
MIT