Bug 1090 – rsh suddenly needs its arguments quotes

Bug 1090 - rsh suddenly needs its arguments quotes

Summary:	rsh suddenly needs its arguments quotes

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification:	Retired
Component:	rsh (Show other bugs)
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Version:	1.0
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Nalin Dahyabhai
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Reported:	1999-02-09 11:53 EST by Bill Nottingham
Modified:	2014-03-16 22:08 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-02-11 13:21:20 EST
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Description Bill Nottingham 1999-02-09 11:53:13 EST

[notting@bobby:~ ]$ rsh localhost ls -l
localhost: option requires an argument -- l
usage: rsh [-nd] [-l login] host [command]

[notting@bobby:~ ]$ rsh localhost "ls -l"
total 4441
-rw-r--r--   1 notting  notting      4476 May 23  1997
16colors.txt
....

This worked on earlier rsh versions.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-02-11 13:21:59 EST

Linux getopt(3) in rsh uses POSICKLY_CORRECT optstring with leading
"+...".

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