On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:57:40AM +0700, Jason Smith wrote: > > ssh machine echo $PATH yields: > > > > /usr/local/globus-2.2.3/bin:/usr/local/globus-2.2.3/sbin:/usr/local/bin > [snip] > > Hmm, if you typed those in as you emailed, then $PATH got interpolated > before ssh was executed. That is, by bash on your SSHer, not your SSHee. > > Shells interpret all variables that they see before executing the command. > A way to make your shell not see $PATH is to hide it in single quotes: > ssh machine echo '$PATH'
Good point. Doing it correctly yields: [EMAIL PROTECTED] shrew]$ ssh eye2 echo '$PATH' /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin -- Shashank G. Khandelwal Research Engineering/Scientist Assistant The Center for Computational Visualization Texas Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/shrew/ _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
