| gabriel rosenkoetter on Tue, 3 Sep 2002 14:50:07 +0200 |
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On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 08:12:10AM -0400, Guillermo Moyna wrote: > echo '$var' > > Which prints '$var' on the screen. Now, if I do the same through rsh, I > get nothing: > > rsh somemachine echo '$var' That's because rsh is stripping the quotes when it passes them across (arguably a bug, since it does pass multiple variables correctly, but whatever). > And I get null. Any clues as to how to pass something with a $ in it > protected from the shell through rsh to another machine? Try rsh host echo \'$var\' For added fun with characters-shells-will-strip, try: tar cf - | rsh host \( cd todir \&\& tar xpf - \) (Throw a v on one of those tar's if you don't have balls of steel. ;^>) Note, btw, that in my example, *some* shells would let you do rsh host '( cd todir && tar xpf - )', but I don't trust it (and you really don't want the shell grabbing the &&, and then the tar x happening locally by accident if you're moving, say, /home because the disk is full...), which *maybe* justifies the ' weirdity. Maybe. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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