.TH UUX 1C "18 January 1983"
uux \- unix to unix command execution
will gather 0 or more files from various systems,
execute a command on a specified system
and send standard output to a file on a specified
The command-string is made up of one or more arguments that look
like a shell command line,
except that the command and file names
may be prefixed by system-name!.
A null system-name is interpreted as the local system.
(2) a pathname preceded by
is a userid on the specified system
and is replaced by that user's login directory;
(3) anything else is prefixed by the current directory.
The `\-' option will cause the standard input to the
command to be the standard input to the command-string.
uux "!diff usg!/usr/dan/f1 pwba!/a4/dan/f1 > !fi.diff"
will get the f1 files from the usg and pwba machines,
and put the results in f1.diff in the local directory.
Any special shell characters such as <>;| should be quoted either
by quoting the entire command-string, or quoting the special
characters as individual arguments.
/usr/spool/uucp spool directory
/usr/lib/uucp/* other data and programs
.I Uucp Implementation Description
An installation may, and for security reasons
generally will, limit the list of
commands executable on behalf of an incoming request from
Typically, a restricted site will permit little other than
Only the first command of a shell pipeline may
All other commands are executed on the system of the first
The use of the shell metacharacter
will probably not do what you want it to do.
The shell tokens << and >> are not implemented.
There is no notification of denial of execution