Thanks Steve, rx $cpu 'procdata' | process
works well for one way. However, procdata | rx $cpu 'process' is in the same way as with cpu(1). Any suggestions for piping in that direction? Best, ak On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Steve Simon <st...@quintile.net> wrote: >> cpu -c 'procdata' | process >> ... >> Perhaps I'm overlooking some simple solutions here. >> Any suggestions? > > cpu(1) works by starting exportfs on the remote machine and serving > the local machines filespace. The remote shell is started with its > stdin/out/err attached to /mnt/term/dev/cons, thus the command you > tried will not work (by design). > > what you want is rx(1) which does exactly what you want, somthing > like rsh(1) from the Unix world, except it uses plan9' secure > authentication; e.g.: > > rx $cpu | process > > -Steve > >