Re: CVS_RSH and Flags?

[Mark D. Baushke]

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sk@elegosoft.com writes:

> I just noticed that CVS_RSH throws a failiure if feed with a port argument
> to ssh. In Rsync it works hapily.(Ok, it's called RSYNC_RSH, but you get
> the point) Any chances to enable ports in CVS_RSH?
> 
> export CVS_RSH="ssh -p 4242"

The typical way to do what you want is to use one
level of indirection...

echo <<EOF > $HOME/bin/ssh-p-4242
#! /bin/sh
exec ssh -p 4242 ${1+"$@"}
EOF
chmod +x $HOME/bin/ssh-p-4242
CVS_RSH=$HOME/bin/ssh-p-4242; export CVS_RSH
cvs -d :ext:foo@www.domain.com:/usr/cvs version

        Enjoy!
        -- Mark
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