Remote Utilities

Remote utilities allow the UNIX host to obtain printing, file manipulation, messaging, and system time services from remote LM-NT-OS/2 and NetWare servers. Remote utilities for LM-NT-OS/2 servers begin with ru; remote utilities for NetWare servers begin with nc.

Use of Wildcards

Several of remote utilities allow you to use wildcard designators for files, following normal UNIX conventions for wildcard interpretations. The command descriptions and examples in this chapter conform to Bourne shell conventions. When you use wildcards with other shells, you may need to make some changes to the example commands. For example, the C shell expands any wildcards on the command line before passing parameters to the program. This causes unexpected results with the remote utilities commands unless you "escape" the string containing the wildcard, so the shell does not expand it. Do this by using single quotation marks ('), double quotation marks ("), or backslash characters (\). For example, in the Bourne shell, you can use the following command:

rudir -P //server1/root/*.*

To achieve the same result in the C shell, use one of the following commands:

rudir -P '//server1/root/*.*'
rudir -P "//server1/root/*.*"
rudir -P //server1/root/\*.\*

Remote LM-NT-OS/2 utilities

• "ruattr"

• "rucopy"

• "rudel"

• "rudir"

• "rumd"

• "rumessage"

• "ruprint"

• "rurd"

• "ruren"

• "rush"

• "ruslist"

• "rutime"

Remote NetWare utilities

• "ncget"

• "ncprint"

• "ncput"

• "ncslist"

• "nctime"