executes
on
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;
normally terminates when the remote command does.
The options are as follows:
The
option turns on socket debugging (using
on the
sockets used for communication with the remote host.
By default, the remote username is the same as the local username.
The
option allows the remote name to be specified.
The
option redirects input from the special device
(see the
section of this manual page).
If no
is specified, you will be logged in on the remote host using
Shell metacharacters which are not quoted are interpreted on local machine,
while quoted metacharacters are interpreted on the remote machine.
For example, the command
appends the remote file
to the local file
while
appends
to
FILES
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The
command appeared in
BUGS
If you are using
and put a
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
to
using the
option.
You cannot run an interactive command
(like
or
using
use
instead.
Stop signals stop the local
process only; this is arguably wrong, but currently hard to fix for reasons
too complicated to explain here.
