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From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Sending quotes to rsh
Message-ID: <1990Jul26.202645.20915@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 26 Jul 90 20:26:45 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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Is this the best way to quote the remote arguements to rsh?  It works,
but seems a bit complicated.  This is SunOs 4.0.3.

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#!/bin/sh
# usage: mailer [-f from] address address ...
#
O="-f MAILER-DAEMON"
S=other_host

case $1 in
	-f) O="-f '$2'";shift 2;;
esac
R="$O"
for A in "$@"
do
	R="$R '$A'"
done

rsh $S echo "$R"

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-Gary Mills-             -University of Manitoba-             -Winnipeg-