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1.1     ! root        1: .TH UUX 1C "18 January 1983"
        !             2: .UC 4
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: uux \- unix to unix command execution
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B uux
        !             7: [
        !             8: .B \-
        !             9: ]
        !            10: command-string
        !            11: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            12: .I Uux
        !            13: will gather 0 or more files from various systems,
        !            14: execute a command on a specified system
        !            15: and send standard output to a file on a specified
        !            16: system.
        !            17: .PP
        !            18: The command-string is made up of one or more arguments that look
        !            19: like a shell command line,
        !            20: except that the command and file names
        !            21: may be prefixed by system-name!.
        !            22: A null system-name is interpreted as the local system.
        !            23: .PP
        !            24: File names may be one of
        !            25: .IP
        !            26: (1) a full pathname;
        !            27: .IP
        !            28: (2) a pathname preceded by
        !            29: .IR ~xxx ;
        !            30: where
        !            31: .I xxx
        !            32: is a userid on the specified system
        !            33: and is replaced by that user's login directory;
        !            34: .br
        !            35: .IP
        !            36: (3) anything else is prefixed by the current directory.
        !            37: .PP
        !            38: The `\-' option will cause the standard input to the
        !            39: .I uux
        !            40: command to be the standard input to the command-string.
        !            41: .PP
        !            42: For example, the command
        !            43: .IP
        !            44: uux "!diff usg!/usr/dan/f1 pwba!/a4/dan/f1 > !fi.diff"
        !            45: .PP
        !            46: will get the f1 files from the usg and pwba machines,
        !            47: execute a
        !            48: .I diff
        !            49: command
        !            50: and put the results in f1.diff in the local directory.
        !            51: .PP
        !            52: Any special shell characters such as <>;| should be quoted either
        !            53: by quoting the entire command-string, or quoting the special
        !            54: characters as individual arguments.
        !            55: .SH FILES
        !            56: .DT
        !            57: /usr/spool/uucp        spool directory
        !            58: .br
        !            59: /usr/lib/uucp/*        other data and programs
        !            60: .SH SEE ALSO
        !            61: uucp(1C)
        !            62: .br
        !            63: D. A. Nowitz,
        !            64: .I Uucp Implementation Description
        !            65: .SH WARNING
        !            66: An installation may, and for security reasons
        !            67: generally will, limit the list of
        !            68: commands executable on behalf of an incoming request from
        !            69: .IR uux .
        !            70: Typically, a restricted site will permit little other than
        !            71: the receipt of mail via 
        !            72: .IR uux .
        !            73: .SH BUGS
        !            74: Only the first command of a shell pipeline may
        !            75: have a system-name!.
        !            76: All other commands are executed on the system of the first
        !            77: command.
        !            78: .br
        !            79: The use of the shell metacharacter
        !            80: .B *
        !            81: will probably not do what you want it to do.
        !            82: .br
        !            83: The shell tokens << and >> are not implemented.
        !            84: .br
        !            85: There is no notification of denial of execution
        !            86: on the remote machine.

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