Capturing SSH output as variable in bash script
I've been struggling with this problem when writing a bash script. Basically, I want to measure the time of a program on a remote server, so I use the command: /usr/bin/time -f %e sh -c "my command > /dev/null 2>&1" to execute the program. However, it appears that I cannot capture the output of my command (SSH) to a variable at all. In fact, the result (time) keeps getting printed out to stdout. The full code is: respond=$(ssh ${fromNode} /usr/bin/time "-f" "%e" "'sh' '-c' 'virsh migrate --live ${VM} qemu+ssh://${toNode}/system --verbose > /dev/null 2>&1'") The value of respond is just empty,