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From: dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: rsh guru req'd!
Keywords: rsh
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.003518.4442@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 23 Apr 91 00:35:18 GMT
References: <6226@iron6.UUCP>
Distribution: comp.unix.shell
Organization: Sequoia Peripherals, Inc.
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In article <6226@iron6.UUCP> yeates@motcid.UUCP (Tony J Yeates) writes:
>The rsh man page includes the following line:-
>"The current local environment is not passed  to  the  remote shell."
>

It isn't, and there is no real way to get around this. What I usually
do when I want to pass something to a remote shell is to explicitly set the 
environment variable in the command, something like (using /bin/sh as the 
login shell):

rsh silicon "VARIABLE=$VARIABLE; export VARIABLE; command-line"




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