On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > I am a big fan of piping the script to the remote shell. > > $ echo "cd /tmp && pwd" | ssh example.com bash > /tmp > > This has two advantages. One is that you can pick your shell on the > remote host. Otherwise it runs as whatever is configured for that > user in the password file. If the remote host has csh configured then > this overrides it and provides a known shell on the remote end. Two > is that since this is stdin it avoids having two different shells > parse the command line. Quoting is then much simplified. >
Makes sense...thanks. jon.
