On Apr 15 2019, "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > on virtually any platform at my disposal (Windows, Ubuntu, MacOS, the > older NonStop variant), and have that work with no problem. Somewhere > after get_ssh_command(), the command is being interpreted it its parts > either as a shell or something else (still trying to find that). See run-command.c:prepare_shell_cmd, if the command contains shell meta characters it is passed to sh -c without further quoting. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."