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Diffstat (limited to 'sshexec.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | sshexec.1 | 30 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 15 deletions
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ sshexec - run a command through ssh(1) with normal command syntax The .B sshexec utility is a wrapper for SSH that makes it easy to run commands -directly in the SSH command. +directly in the SSH command line. .PP .B sshexec passes any argument after @@ -37,24 +37,24 @@ and the .IR argument s to one argument that can be passed into .BR ssh (1) -to describe each argument as separate arguments. +to describe each argument as a separate argument. It may also rewrite .I destination -to remove information that's not supported by +to remove information that is not supported by .BR ssh (1) -and inserts extra arguments after it +and insert extra arguments after it (it may also add a .B -- argument immediately before .IR destination ) -to cause the remote shell it change working directory to +to cause the remote shell to change working directory to .IR directory , if specified, and execute the provided .I command and .IR argument s as a regular command rather than as shell code joined -by together by spaces. +together by spaces. .SH OPTIONS .B sshexec @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ utility or .IR ssh-command . The .B sshexec -utility has a build it list of options recognised by the +utility has a built-in list of options recognised by the .BR ssh (1) utility and will not allow anything matching this list. The @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ Any equal to .I asis-marker will be skipped over and instead the next argument -(regardless of whether it to is equal to +(regardless of whether it too is equal to .IR asis-marker ) will be interpreted as raw shell code string that shall be inserted without escaping. @@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ shall be inserted without escaping. .BI masis= asis-count If specified, .I asis-marker -shall only have it's specified affect up to +shall only have its specified effect up to .I asis-count times. @@ -249,8 +249,8 @@ shall be the port or service name for the port to connect to on the remote machine. .I directory -shall be directory to change the remote working directory. -This is an alternative to (with the exact same behaviour) +shall be the directory to change the remote working directory. +This is an alternative (with the exact same behaviour) to the .B dir option and cannot be combined with it. @@ -262,11 +262,11 @@ utility would simply join the .I command and .I argument -arguments with a space between each of them as pass it +arguments with a space between each of them and pass the result to the remote shell for execution, the .B sshexec -utility forces the remote shell to treat each of the -as separate arguments and cause the shell to executing +utility forces the remote shell to treat each of them +as a separate argument and causes the shell to execute them as a non-builtin command. .I command @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ utility itself does not use the standard input. None. .SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES -The following environment variables affects the execution of +The following environment variables affect the execution of .BR sshexec : .TP .I PATH |