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rdist(1) rdist(1)

The special command is used to specify sh(1) commands that are to be executed on the

remote host after the ﬁle in name_list is updated or installed. If the name_list is omitted then

the shell commands will be executed for every ﬁle updated or installed. The shell variable ‘FILE’

is set to the current ﬁlename before executing the commands in string. string starts and ends

with double quotes (") and can cross multiple lines in distﬁle. Multiple commands to the shell

should be separated by semi-colons (;). Commands are executed in the user’s home directory on

the host being updated. The special command can be used, for example, to rebuild private

databases after a program has been updated. Shell variables cannot be used in the command

because there is no escape mechanism for the $ character.

Newlines, tabs, and blanks are only used as separators and are otherwise ignored. Comments begin with #

and end with a newline.

A generalized way of dynamically building variable lists is provided by using a backquote syntax much like

the shell. In this way, arbitrary commands that generate stdout with space-separated words may be used

to build the list (see the use of cat command in the examples).

Variables to be expanded begin with $ followed by the variable name enclosed in curly braces.

The shell meta-characters

[, ], {, },

*, and ? are recognized and expanded (on the local host only) in the

same way as csh(1). They can be escaped with a backslash. The

˜ character is also expanded in the same

way as csh but is expanded separately on the local and destination hosts. When the

-w option is used with

a ﬁle name that begins with

˜, everything except the home directory is appended to the destination name.

File names which do not begin with / or ˜ use the destination user’s home directory as the root directory

for the rest of the ﬁle name.

DIAGNOSTICS

A complaint about mismatch of rdist version numbers may mean that an executable rdist is not in the

shell’s path on the remote system.

EXAMPLES

The following is a small example.

HOSTS = ( matisse root@arpa )

FILES = ( /usr/lib /usr/bin /usr/local/games

/usr/include/{*.h,{sys,rpc*,arpa}/*.h}

/usr/man/man? ‘cat ./std-files‘ )

EXLIB = ( Mail.rc aliases aliases.dir aliases.pag crontab dshrc

sendmail.cf sendmail.fc sendmail.hf sendmail.st uucp vfont )

${FILES} -> ${HOSTS}

install -R ;

except /usr/lib/${EXLIB} ;

except /usr/local/games/lib ;

special /usr/sbin/sendmail " /usr/sbin/sendmail -bz" ;

srcs:

/usr/local/src -> arpa

except_pat ( \\.o$ /SCCS\$ ) ;

IMAGEN = (ips dviimp catdvi)

imagen:

/usr/local/${IMAGEN} -> arpa

install /usr/local/lib ;

notify ralph ;

${FILES} :: stamp.cory

notify root@cory ;

AUTHOR

rdist was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.

HP-UX Release 11i: December 2000 − 3 − Section 1−−773

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