On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 08:42:17PM +0000, gscant...@comcast.net wrote: > I wish to ssh this command to several hosts: > ls -alst "dir_with_spaces"
for host in "${hosts[@]}"; do ssh "$host" bash <<-'EOF' ls -alst "your directory" EOF done The - in front of the here document's delimiter allows indentation with tabs only (not spaces). I Cc'ed help-b...@gnu.org because that's more appropriate for this question.