Bug 1090 - rsh suddenly needs its arguments quotes
Summary: rsh suddenly needs its arguments quotes
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: rsh
Version: 1.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-02-09 16:53 UTC by Bill Nottingham
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:08 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-02-11 18:21:20 UTC

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Description Bill Nottingham 1999-02-09 16:53:13 UTC 
[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 18:21:59 UTC 
Linux getopt(3) in rsh uses POSICKLY_CORRECT optstring with leading
"+...".
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