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From: west@sdcsla.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: rsh eats # character
Message-ID: <547@sdcsla.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 29-Apr-84 23:24:15 EDT
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Posted: Sun Apr 29 23:24:15 1984
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Organization: U.C. San Diego, Cognitive Science Lab
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned this: all you need to do is
put a back-slash in front of the "#", as in:

	rsh poliovax 'echo now you \# see me'

which produces the desired effect.   The problem of how to treat
special characters will always be with (or against) us, I suspect.

			-- Larry West   UC San Diego, ICS/CSL
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