NAME

rsh − remote shell

SYNOPSIS

rsh host [ −l username ] [ −n ] command
host [ −l username ] [ −n ] command

DESCRIPTION

Rsh connects to the specified host, and executes the specified command.  Rsh copies its standard input to the remote command, the standard output of the remote command to its standard output, and the standard error of the remote command to its standard error.  Interrupt, quit and terminate signals are propagated to the remote command; rsh normally terminates when the remote command does. 

The remote username used is the same as your local username, unless you specify a different remote name with the −l option.  This remote name must be equivalent (in the sense of rlogin(1C)) to the originating account; no provision is made for specifying a password with a command.

If you omit command, then instead of executing a single command, you will be logged in on the remote host using rlogin(1C).

Shell metacharacters which are not quoted are interpreted on local machine, while quoted metacharacters are interpreted on the remote machine.  Thus the command

   rsh otherhost cat remotefile >> localfile

appends the remote file remotefile to the localfile localfile, while

   rsh otherhost cat remotefile ">>" otherremotefile

appends remotefile to otherremotefile. 

Host names are resolved by calling gethostbyname(3N), which may involve the use of the name server named(8); see gethostent(3N) for details.  The host names for local machines are also commands in the directory /usr/hosts; if you put this directory in your search path then the rsh can be omitted. 

FILES

/etc/hosts
/usr/hosts/∗

SEE ALSO

rlogin(1C), gethostent(3N), named(8)

BUGS

If you are using csh(1) and put a rsh(1C) in the background without redirecting its input away from the terminal, it will block even if no reads are posted by the remote command.  If no input is desired you should redirect the input of rsh to /dev/null using the −n option. 

You cannot run an interactive command (like rogue(6) or vi(1)); use rlogin(1C).

Stop signals stop the local rsh process only; this is arguably wrong, but currently hard to fix for reasons too complicated to explain here. 

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