Question

I use SSH Secure Shell client to connect to a server and run my scripts.

I want to stop a script on some conditions, so when I use exit, not only the script stops, but all the client disconnects from the server!, Here is the code:

if [[ `echo $#` -eq 0 ]]; then
        echo "Missing argument- must to get a friend list";
        exit
fi

for user in $*; do
        if [[ !(-f `echo ${user}.user`) ]]; then
                echo "The user name ${user} doesn't exist.";
                exit
        fi
done

A picture of the client:

Why is this happening?

Answer 1

You use source to run the script, this runs it in the current shell. That means that exit terminates the current shell and with that the ssh session.

replace source with bash and it should work, or better put

#!/bin/bash

on to of the file and make it executable.