Question

i’ve set up my public and private keys and have automated ssh login. I want to execute two commands say command1 and command2 in one login session and store them in files command1.txt and command2.txt on the local machine.

i’m using this code

ssh -i my_key user@ip 'command1 command2' and the two commands get executed in one login but i have no clue as to how to store them in 2 different files.

I want to do so because i dont want to repeatedly ssh into my remote host.

Answer 1

Unless you can parse the actual outputs of the two commands and distinguish which is which, you can’t. You will need two separate ssh sessions:

ssh -i my_key user@ip command1 > command1.txt
ssh -i my_key user@ip command2 > command2.txt

You could also redirect the outputs to files on the remote machine and then copy them to your local machine:

ssh -i my_key user@ip 'command1 > command1.txt; command2 > command2.txt'
scp -i my_key user@ip:'command*.txt' .