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Differences from Other Shells
Differences from Other Shells
@ character
When a command is running in the foreground on a remote host, all keyboard
input (type-ahead) is sent to the remote host. If the remote command does not
read the input, it is lost.
lstcsh has no way of knowing whether the remote command reads its
standard input. The only way to provide any input to the command is to send
everything available on the standard input to the remote command in case the
remote command needs it. As a result, any type-ahead entered while a remote
command is running in the foreground, and not read by the remote command,
is lost.
The @ character has a special meaning when it is preceded by white space. This
means that the @ must be escaped with a backslash \ to run commands with
arguments that start with @, like finger. This is an example of using finger
to get a list of users on another host:
% finger @other.domain
Normally the finger command attempts to contact the named host. Under
lstcsh, the @ character is interpreted as a request for remote execution, so the
shell tries to contact the RES on the host other.domain to remotely execute
the finger command. If this host is not in your LSF cluster, the command fails.
When the @ character is escaped, it is passed to finger unchanged and
finger behaves as expected.
% finger \@hostB
For more details on the @ character, see “@ character” on page 556.
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