The days of senility must be approaching .. Surely this has been solved
and resolved many years ago.
$ ssh otherhost "uptime | awk '{print $1}'"
Statement of observation:
The local shell dutifully passes the text string including a $1 to
the ssh program.
However, the ssh program insists on expanding $1 BEFORE it attempts
the remote execution.
Therefore, it is impossible for the text string '$1' to appear on
the remote command line.
In the example above, the remote command is:
uptime | awk '{print }'
Assuming that ssh respects special character escapes; all manner of
escapes, double dollars, quote combinations, etc were attempted. No
magical combination was found.
What am I missing? My youth? My Mind?
Thanks for playing.
