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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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