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From: dag@fciva.FRANKCAP.COM (Daniel A. Graifer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: remote shells
Message-ID: <595@fciva.FRANKCAP.COM>
Date: 5 Apr 91 17:52:13 GMT
References: <3688@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Reply-To: dag@fciva.UUCP (Daniel A. Graifer)
Organization: Coastal Capital Funding Corp., McLean, VA
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In article <3688@ux.acs.umn.edu> edh@ux.acs.umn.edu (Merlinus Ambrosius) writes:
>Is it possible to do this?
>
>#!/bin/sh
>RHOST=apple-gunkies
>rsh $RHOST 'echo here I am on $RHOST!'

Other people correctly pointed that the single quotes are preventing the
local shell from substituting the variable, and taht double quotes would
prevent this.  I prefer:

rsh $RHOST 'echo here I am on `uname`!'

Dan
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