Hi. I have a kornshell script that runs on a daily basis as a cron job. Part of what the script does is copy the folder contents from another server to the current server (server where KSH script is running).

I have a scp command, as follows:

scp $REMOTE_HOST:$REMOTE_FILE_DIR/* $TMP_DIR

How would I verify the connection to the "remote host"? In other words, I don't want to run the SCP command unless it can connect to the remote host. How would I do this?

Thanks,
- Dylan

surely if it cannot connect to the remote host, the command won't run anyway...