On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 08:39, David Rothenberger wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Feb 17 12:58, David Rothenberger wrote: > > We're using the latest plain BSD getopt() now. It's permuting the > > options by default. This was switched off by default in Cygwin so far. > > > > Typically you should quote the command you send to the remote host: > > > > ssh somehost '/bin/bash --login -c date' > > Yeah, that's an easy fix for this simple case, but I have a bunch of other > scripts that have quotes in the command sent to ssh, which makes adding > another level of quotes "fun." > > > Another way to accomplish what you want is to set the environment > > variable POSIXLY_CORRECT prior to calling ssh. > > That's helpful. Thanks. > > This change broke a number of my scripts. I wonder how many other similar > error reports will be made by other users when 1.5.8 is released?
you may find that ssh somehost -- bin/bash --login -c date also works. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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