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Bug 1090

Summary: rsh suddenly needs its arguments quotes
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide Reporter: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Component: rshAssignee: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
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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
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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
"+...".