ssh host echo bla | echo bla

[Dan Astoorian]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 12:55:20 EST, Ed Phillips writes:
> It's even worse with csh (my first test was tcsh):
> 
> polycut:~> csh -f
> polycut.nss.udel.edu% ssh ldap1 echo bla | echo bla
> bla
> polycut.nss.udel.edu% Reset tty pgrp from 13749 to 13747
> <..hang..>

This is a known bogosity with csh builtins (see Tom Christiansen's
classic article "Csh Programming Considered Harmful" for specifics).
Don't pipe stuff to builtins... or, if you do, don't expect consistent
behaviour.

You may wish to try piping to "/bin/echo" rather than "echo".  Or even
to "/bin/true", if you're just looking for a command which ignores
stdin--I haven't figured out exactly what it is you're trying to test.

-- 
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Sysadmin, CSLab             loved and lost than never loved at all.  It's
djast at cs.toronto.edu        not, it's better to have loved and won.  All
www.cs.toronto.edu/~djast/  the other options really suck.    --Dan Redican