ssh-facts1
Usage
ssh-facts [user@]
hostname
Overview
get some facts about the remote system
For further processing of the data
you can use standard shell tools like awk, grep, sed
or convert it to JSON with jo and then feed it to jq
Examples
- ssh-facts 127.0.0.1
- ssh-facts 127.0.0.1 | grep ^OS_VERSION | awk -F'=' '{ print $2 }'
- ssh-facts 127.0.0.1 | jo -p
- ssh-facts 127.0.0.1 | jo | jq
- ssh-facts 127.0.0.1 | jo | jq .OS_VERSION
History
- Arch Linux 2026-11-01: the text shown here
- Debian 13 (Trixie)
- Debian 12 (Bookworm)
- Debian 11 (Bullseye)
- Debian 10 (Buster)