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From: michaelp@dadla.WR.TEK.COM (Michael Prusynski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Need help with remote shell
Keywords: PATH
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Date: 9 Nov 90 18:26:24 GMT
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dave@aspect.UUCP (Dave Corcoran) writes:
>Is there a .login or .cshrc or .profile which is read upon startup
>of a remote shell? i.e. remsh in Motorola SYSV (rsh in SunOs).
>
>If I issue the command:  remsh host date
>
>I get eastern standard time. I can, however, issue:  remsh host TZ=$TZ date
>
>and get the date adjusted to the timezone of the local machine (assuming
>the host "runs" sh or ksh).
>
>This is all well and good for simple commands. What I need is a way
>to cause the remote shell to read some .profile by default to set up the
>ENV without resorting to:  remsh host ". /u/me/.profile; command"
>for each command. It just seems inelegant.

I have a Bourne shell script in my $HOME directory called "do", as follows:

PATH=/u/michaelp/bin:/usr/local:/usr/ens/bin:/usr/tek:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/tek/bin
exec $@

then if I'm not sure the remote command is in the default path on the
remote host, I type:  rsh remhost do command arg1 arg2...
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