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From: mitanu@goedel.top.cis.syr.edu (Mitanu Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Using awk with rsh
Keywords: awk, rsh
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.173024.9704@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 25 Jun 91 21:30:24 GMT
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Reply-To: mitanu@top.cis.syr.edu (Mitanu Paul)
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I'd like to thank several people who have responded to my initial
query about the command

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


One solution (by wittig@gmdzi.gmd.de (Georg Wittig)), which works for my
case, is to use

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

to avoid $4 being interpreted locally.


suresh@uts.amdahl.com (Suresh Padmanabhan) suggested

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

which work on UTS.

I'd like to thank mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) for his article
in helping understand the problem.

-- Mitanu Paul.