I've written a script to startup a remote application and I'm running into issues when trying to run commands on the remote host. My script tries to execute the following Here is a subset of my script #!/bin/bash host=somehost export APP_ARGS="-Darg1 -Darg2 -Darg3 -D${VAR1} -D${VAR2} " ${SSH_CMD} ${host} ""${APP_ARGS} -Dfoo=${host} -Dfoo=${host} com.packahe.AppClass >/dev/null &"" If I use "" "" around ${APP_ARGS} my script backgrounds and works as stated but I get the following ./script.sh: line 46: : command not found every time yet everything works as designed If I use a single " " around ${APP_ARGS} the script runs sequentially and waits for each execution to finish before moving on I don't want this behavior but I don't get the following Issue ./script.sh: line 46: : command not found Anyone have an idea how exactly I can fix these issues? Thanks. --- Rodrick R. Brown -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subjecthttps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list