Checking the exit status of a ssh remote command in bash

Question

I need to check that a transacions file is published on a remote host. There is no transactions code published for today the 31 of December. I know that for certain. There i

Answer 1

Similar issues have been discussed here many times, see scp return code discussion 1

and 300+ answers when searching for scp errors

but to give you a working answer, consider trying this

 if 
     ssh -q -T user@capserbox "ls -ltr  /home/DropBox/transactions_${today}.csv" \
     | grep -q "transactions_${today}\.csv" ;
 then
       echo "this worked" 
 else
       echo "nope"
 fi

Sorry, I don't have any way to test this.

IHTH.