On 27/05/2023 01:45, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
ssh user@host "ls -l a\ b"This one, incidentally, sends 'ls -l a b' to the remote shell. ssh user@host "ls -l a\\ b" has the effect you want; the first backslash is eaten by the local shell.
Or is it? $ echo "ls -l a\ b" ls -l a\ b $ This is with bash 5.2.15. From the man page: Enclosing characters in double quotes preserves the literal value of all characters within the quotes, with the exception of $, `, \, and, when history expansion is enabled, !. ... The backslash retains its special meaning only when followed by one of the fol- lowing characters: $, `, ", \, or <newline>. Other shells may be different, of course. Regards, Brian. _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
