Hi,
I've encountered the following problem with rsh and I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on a solution or another remote login app. I could use instead?
I'm writing a shell script that starts a process on all the machines on a cluster & redirects the output to different files.
Example code:

for loop
rsh remote_machine command > file$i &

The problem is when I run rsh in the background it does start the process on all the different machines, but the output isn't redirected to the files?

Thanks.

This isn't be a problem with rsh, it's a problem with the shell that you are using to do the redirection.

Firstly, make sure that $i does not contain spaces or punctuation, as these can get interpreted by the shell, putting the redirection to a different file.

My advice would be to try an explicit shell invocation to do the redirection. You didn't say which shell you were using, but I'd exect something like this to work:
Note the single quotes, which tells the calling shell not to inline macro names or do anything fancy. Passing the -m option to Bash tells it to preserve the environment, so $i will still work.

Hope that helps,
— Robert J. Lee

Thanks alot - it worked.