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by **star nig** » Fri, 27 Jul 2001 22:37:42

is there any known isses with using sed with rsh

sed -n '/^ passwd:/p' /etc/nsswitch.conf works ok locally but gives a
command garbled when
rsh host sed -n '/^ passwd:/p' /etc/nsswitch.conf
any ideas.

Thanks
SN

by **t..** » Fri, 27 Jul 2001 22:57:40

> is there any known isses with using sed with rsh

> sed -n '/^ passwd:/p' /etc/nsswitch.conf works ok locally but gives a
> command garbled when
> rsh host sed -n '/^ passwd:/p' /etc/nsswitch.conf

rsh eats away the quotes so the remote system sees
sed -n /^ passwd:/p /etc/nsswitch.conf

The solution is adding an extra pair of quotes, e.g.,

rsh host "sed -n '/^ passwd:/p' /etc/nsswitch.conf"

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Tapani Tarvainen

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