Niels Möller 1999-05-01

Piping with ssh

It's possible to use ssh in pipes, but its a little tricky and inefficient: 
$ ssh host du \| tee /tmp/foo | grep -f x | ssh host sort

Piping in an lsh "shell-mode"

Let's imagine a shell mode for running local and remote processes. Assume that square brackets [] denote remote process grouping on some host, similar to parenthesis () used to group local processes. 
$ [ du | tee /tmp/foo ] | grep -f x | [ sort ]

Remote job control

$ [ job_a ]& [job_b]& local_job &
$ jobs
[1 remote] job_a
[2 remote] job_b
[3]        local_job
$ fg %2
...