Thanks Adreas. That was what I suspected in my reply to Bob. But Bob disagreed. Looks like there were some confusion about this feature even among experts. Seems another reason to deprecate the feature.
-peter Andreas Schwab-2 wrote: > > peter360 <peter...@fastmail.us> writes: > >> That makes sense. So the "feature" is to split all parameters on space >> even >> if they are quoted? > > The feature is that ssh concatenates all remaining arguments to a single > string and passes that to the shell on the remote side. If you want to > preserve any quoting in this process you need to quote them. > > Andreas. > > -- > Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org > GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 > "And now for something completely different." > > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/ulimit-and-ssh--tp25262471p25754738.html Sent from the Gnu - Bash mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
