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diff --git a/contrib/perl5/eg/g/gsh.man b/contrib/perl5/eg/g/gsh.man new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2958707 --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/perl5/eg/g/gsh.man @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +.\" $RCSfile: gsh.man,v $$Revision: 4.1 $$Date: 92/08/07 17:20:22 $ +.TH GSH 8 "13 May 1988" +.SH NAME +gsh \- global shell +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B gsh +[options] +.I host +[options] +.I command +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I gsh +works just like rsh(1C) except that you may specify a set of hosts to execute +the command on. +The host sets are defined in the file /etc/ghosts. +(An individual host name can be used as a set containing one member.) +You can give a command like + + gsh sun /etc/mungmotd + +to run /etc/mungmotd on all your Suns. +.P +You may specify the union of two or more sets by using + as follows: + + gsh 750+mc /etc/mungmotd + +which will run mungmotd on all 750's and Masscomps. +.P +Commonly used sets should be defined in /etc/ghosts. +For example, you could add a line that says + + pep=manny+moe+jack + +Another way to do that would be to add the word "pep" after each of the host +entries: + + manny sun3 pep +.br + moe sun3 pep +.br + jack sun3 pep + +Hosts and sets of host can also be excluded: + + foo=sun-sun2 + +Any host so excluded will never be included, even if a subsequent set on the +line includes it: + + foo=abc+def + bar=xyz-abc+foo + +comes out to xyz+def. + +You can define private host sets by creating .ghosts in your current directory +with entries just like /etc/ghosts. +Also, if there is a file .grem, it defines "rem" to be the remaining hosts +from the last gsh or gcp that didn't succeed everywhere. + +Options include all those defined by rsh, as well as + +.IP "\-d" 8 +Causes gsh to collect input till end of file, and then distribute that input +to each invokation of rsh. +.IP "\-h" 8 +Rather than print out the command followed by the output, merely prepends the +host name to each line of output. +.IP "\-s" 8 +Do work silently. +.PP +Interrupting with a SIGINT will cause the rsh to the current host to be skipped +and execution resumed with the next host. +To stop completely, send a SIGQUIT. +.SH SEE ALSO +rsh(1C) +.SH BUGS +All the bugs of rsh, since it calls rsh. + +Also, will not properly return data from the remote execution that contains +null characters. |