How to ssh from within a bash script?

Question

I am trying to create an ssh connection and do some things on the remote server from within the script.

However the terminal prompts me for a password, then opens th

Answer 1

1. If you want the password prompt to go away then use key based authentication (described here).

2. To run commands remotely over ssh you have to give them as an argument to ssh, like the following:

root@host:~ # ssh root@www 'ps -ef | grep apache | grep -v grep | wc -l'