Unix commandlines for ARD

I am looking for some help using ?Unix command lines and shell scripts with ARD. Is this the best forum for that....for example I am trying to start an ASR server remotely from ARD on a OS X.4 server...When I drag the script to terminal and start it using SUDO the server starts up and gives me the information it is waiting for client....however if I call the script using the following from ARD"/Users/admin/Desktop/MulticastConfig/ASRmulticastBiolab.sh" using ROOT as the logged in person I do not get feed back from the Unix window and the task just keeps running. When go to to the server and check Activity Monitor I see ASR running as a process. What really bothers me is that 1) I don't get the "waiting for clients message" and I cannot run any other tasks. Is there a way to have the process run from ARD just like I was at the server. If I stop the task it kills ASR....it seems as if the process is hooked into ARD until I kill the task....Which is not what I want to do....I have many questions about the unix command line and ARD so if someone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it....
Thanks

I agree with Dave. The reason the "Send Unix Command" is in ARD, is so that you can send a command line to a group of Macs and you don't have to go around to each one and type in the command to each one of them. This comes in handy in a lab environment when you have to turn off something like DeepFreeze on all the computers.
For one machine, like the server, you are much better off just running SSH.

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set the_versions to the_versions & return & (do shell script "mdls -name kMDItemVersion /Applications/Safari.app")
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kMDItemVersion = \"11.0.07\"
kMDItemVersion = \"7.0.4\"
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kMDItemVersion = \"10.1.10\"
ProductName:          Mac OS X
ProductVersion:          10.9.3
BuildVersion:          13D65"
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Forum software NOW prevents posting complete shell scripts. You'll have to piece together the code.
First build an array of the applications that you are looking for in this form. Note; I truncated the applications.
apps=( "/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Excel.app" "/Applications/Adobe Reader.app" "/Applications/Safari.app" )
Next loop thru the array
for i in "${apps[@]}"; do
     printf "%s: %s\n" "$i" "$(mdls -name kMDItemVersion "$i")"
done
If you want to create a report then change the above loop to the following
for i in "${apps[@]}"; do
     printf "%s: %s\n" "$i" "$(mdls -name kMDItemVersion "$i")"
done > app_report.txt
sw_vers >> app_report.txt
Message was edited by: Mark Jalbert

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AEBSn - Port Mapping Setup
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Internet > DHCP tab
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Hi
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[email protected]

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Dear Friend,
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Hi Sachin,
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Hi Sachin,
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http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/whitepaper.aspx?&docid=10197&promo=100511
happy learning!
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