Silicon Graphics IRIS Workstation User Manual page 125

XX(1)
NAME
xx - remote shell
SYNOPSIS
xx host command
DESCRIPTION
xx connects to the specified host and executes the specified command. xx
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; xx normally terminates when the
remote command does.
The remote login name must be equivalent (in the sense of sh(1)) to the ori-
ginating account; no provision is made for specifying a password with a
command.
If you omit comand, then instead of executing a single command, you will be
logged in on the remote host using xx(1).
Shell metacharacters which are not quoted are interpreted on the local
machine, while quoted metacharacters are interpreted on the remote machine.
Thus the command
appends the remote file remotefile to the local file localfile, while
appends remotefile to otherremotefile.
SEE ALSO
xlogin(1), xcp(1)
BUGS
If you are using csh(1) and put an xx(1) in the background without redirect- ing
its input away from the terminal, it will block even if no reads are posted by
the remote command.
You cannot run an interactive command (like vi(1)); use xlogin(1).
Stop signals stop the local xx process only; this is arguably wrong, but
currently hard to fix tor reasons too complicated to explain here.
October 1984
Silicon Graphics
$ xx otherhost cat remotefile > > localfile
$ xx otherhost cat remotefile ">>" otherremotefile
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XX(1)
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