rsh1
Remote shell client
Usage
rsh [OPTION ...]
[USER@]
HOST
[COMMAND
[ARG ...]]
Overview
remote shell
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-4, --ipv4 -
use only IPv4
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-6, --ipv6 -
use only IPv6
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-8, --8-bit -
allows an eight-bit input data path at all times
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-d, --debug -
turns on socket debugging (see setsockopt(2))
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-e, --escape=CHAR -
allows user specification of the escape character (``~'' by default)
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-l, --user=USER -
run as USER on the remote system
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-n, --no-input -
use /dev/null as input
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-?, --help -
give this help list
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--usage -
give a short usage message
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-V, --version -
print program version
Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options.
Releases
7 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 4 times.
--8-bit since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--debug since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--escape since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--help since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--ipv4 since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--ipv6 since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--no-input since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--usage since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--user since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--version since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
-4 since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
-6 since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
-8 since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
-? since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
-V since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
-e since Arch Linux 2026-11-01.
-K until Debian 2.2 (Potato);
-k until Debian 2.1 (Slink);
-x until Debian 2.1 (Slink).