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From: wittig@gmdzi.gmd.de (Georg Wittig)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Using awk with rsh
Keywords: awk, rsh
Message-ID: <4970@gmdzi.gmd.de>
Date: 21 Jun 91 07:34:48 GMT
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mitanu@goedel.top.cis.syr.edu (Mitanu Paul) writes:

>	rsh spica "ps -l | awk '{ print $4}'"
>
>and here is what I get:
>
>       F UID   PID  PPID CP PRI NI  SZ  RSS WCHAN    STAT TT  TIME COMMAND
>20488200 109  2548  2547  1  15  0  96    0 kernelma IW   pc  0:00 -csh (csh)
>20008000 109  2599  2548  0   1  0 292    0 select   IW   pc  0:05 emacs p2.pl
>

This is a quoting problem of your shell. Try

	rsh spica 'ps -l | awk '"'"'{ print $4}'"'"
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