rsh eats # character

west at sdcsla.UUCP west at sdcsla.UUCP
Mon Apr 30 13:24:15 AEST 1984


I'm surprised no one has mentioned this: all you need to do is
put a back-slash in front of the "#", as in:

	rsh poliovax 'echo now you \# see me'

which produces the desired effect.   The problem of how to treat
special characters will always be with (or against) us, I suspect.

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