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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Simple open remote file script Post 302297743 by rikxik on Sunday 15th of March 2009 12:12:47 AM
Old 03-15-2009
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Originally Posted by elbombillo
WOW Thanks a Million. I'm not sure how it works but it does.
Well, suppose your filename is "file name.txt" (has a space). if you just put it as ssh -q user@remotehost "open ${file}", then first the local shell (from where you are running the command) will expand the name. So the command which will be passed to the remote machine will be "ssh -q user@remotehost open file name.txt". Obviously this will try to open a file called "file" instead of "file name.txt". So the trick is to ensure that we provide an extra set of double quotes (which preserve the space) and they are part of the command send to remote machine. But if we simply put the double quote, the local shell will interpret them. So we escape the double quotes (and avoid them from being interpreted by the local shell) by adding a \ before them. So the command which gets passed to the remote shell is:

ssh -q user@remotehost open "file name.txt"

This is what you want.
 

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NAME
rpdump - alpine remote data utility SYNTAX
rpdump [ -f ] -l Local_file -r Remote_folder DESCRIPTION
Rpdump may be used to copy the actual data from remote Alpine configuration files or address books into a local file. It is intended to be used by system administrators. Regular users should normally use the facilities provided within Alpine. Local_file will normally be a local temporary file. Remote_folder is the IMAP folder being used as a remote Alpine configuration (with the help of Alpine's -P, -p, and -x commands or PINECONF, PINERC, and PINERCEX environment variables) or remote Alpine address book folder. A copy of the data from Remote_folder will be copied to Local_file. -f Force the dump even if the remote folder is in an unrecognized format. -l Local_file The file on this system that is to be copied to. -r Remote_folder A remote folder name to be copied from. See the Alpine documentation for the syntax of a remote folder name. One example is {my.imap.server}remote_pinerc. DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is zero if all goes well, -1 otherwise. SEE ALSO
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