rcmd copies its standard input to the remote command, the standard output of the remote command to its standard output, and the standard error of the remote command to its standard error. Interrupt, quit and terminate signals are propagated to the remote command; rcmd normally terminates when the remote command does. The options are as follows:
/dev/null
(see the
BUGS
section of this manual page).
Shell metacharacters which are not quoted are interpreted on local machine, while quoted metacharacters are interpreted on the remote machine. For example, the command
rcmd
otherhost
cat
remotefile
>>
localfile
appends the remote file remotefile to the local file localfile, while
rcmd
otherhost
cat
remotefile
">>"
other_remotefile
appends remotefile to other_remotefile.
/etc/hosts
/dev/null
using the
-n
option.
You cannot use rcmd to run an interactive command (like rogue(6) or vi(1)). Use rlogin(1) instead.
The stop signal,
SIGSTOP
,
will stop the local
rcmd
process only.
This is arguably wrong, but currently hard to fix for reasons
too complicated to explain here.