Ssh remote execute invalid command

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Hi All,

i have setup my public key in vyos and verified i can connect no problems without a password and run commands no problem

but whenever i try to run a command remotely, im getting Invalid command and im not sure why?

PS C:\Users\sas_2\Documents\Developer\talos> ssh vyos@217.123.123.123 “show ip bgp”
Invalid command: [show]

PS C:\Users\sas_2\Documents\Developer\talos> ssh vyos@217.123.123.123
Welcome to VyOS!

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and feel free to report bugs at https://vyos.dev

You can change this banner using “set system login banner post-login” command.

VyOS is a free software distribution that includes multiple components,
you can check individual component licenses under /usr/share/doc/*/copyright
Last login: Mon Jul 3 11:20:04 2023 from 192.168.251.169

vyos@vyos:~$ show ip bgp
BGP table version is 77, local router ID is 192.168.251.254, vrf id 0
Default local pref 100, local AS 65000
Status codes: s suppressed, d damped, h history, * valid, > best, = multipath,
i internal, r RIB-failure, S Stale, R Removed
Nexthop codes: @NNN nexthop’s vrf id, < announce-nh-self
Origin codes: i - IGP, e - EGP, ? - incomplete
RPKI validation codes: V valid, I invalid, N Not found

Network          Next Hop            Metric LocPrf Weight Path

*>i192.168.251.251/32
192.168.251.101 100 0 i
*=i 192.168.251.102 100 0 i
*=i 192.168.251.103 100 0 i
*>i217.123.123.124/32 192.168.251.104 100 0 i
*=i 192.168.251.105 100 0 i
*=i 192.168.251.106 100 0 i
*>i217.123.123.125/32 192.168.251.106 100 0 i

Displayed 3 routes and 7 total paths
vyos@vyos:~$

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You should use /opt/vyatta/bin/vyatta-op-cmd-wrapper

$ ssh vyos@192.168.122.14 /opt/vyatta/bin/vyatta-op-cmd-wrapper show interfaces
Warning: Permanently added '192.168.122.14' (ED25519) to the list of known hosts.
Codes: S - State, L - Link, u - Up, D - Down, A - Admin Down
Interface        IP Address                        S/L  Description
---------        ----------                        ---  -----------
eth0             192.168.122.14/24                 u/u  WAN
eth1             192.0.2.2/24                      u/u  
eth2             -                                 u/u  
eth3             -                                 u/u
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legend! thank you!

the docs show a completely different way of doing things but didnt work either
where are the docs, can i submit a PR to update it?
https://docs.vyos.io/en/latest/automation/command-scripting.html#run-commands-remotely

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Hi @si458,

on the top right there is an „Edit on GitHub“ button. Just use it to help improve our documentation. Thanks!

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Yeh found it yday sorry meant to say, the pr got rejected cuz it’s an old function