Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> writes: > Dennis Williamson wrote: >> Yes, do your quoting like this: >> ssh localhost 'bash -c "cd /tmp; pwd"' > > I am a big fan of piping the script to the remote shell. > > $ echo "cd /tmp && pwd" | ssh example.com bash > /tmp
Even better: $ ssh example.com bash <<\EOF cd /tmp && pwd EOF That avoids having to watch out for ' vs " quoting. 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."