Arguments, whitespace, splitting, and shells (& compatibility)

[Philipp Marek]

Quite some time ago there was a bit of discussion whether SSH can change 
it's (information-destroying) way of passing commands to the remote host 
(whitespace in an argument gets split up, too).

[[To reproduce:
    # echo "yes              no"
    yes              no
but
    # ssh <host> echo "yes              no"
    yes no
]]

For other problematic things, check "scp" for filenames containing spaces.


Now, I'm well aware that the default for so many years can't be changed 
(easily); but how about a new option that repairs that behaviour?  This
way new scripts can just add that, and don't have to work around broken
tools ;/ (sorry, but it's really cumbersome).


I believe there was a patch already; googling found me the (a) old 
discussion at http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/openssh/dev/9249,
but the patch (if it exists, perhaps I'm still misremembering) escaped
me.


Please, let's try to find a solution for that...
if not for any other reasons, then to make "ssh" a simple cloud-provider, too ;)


Thank you!


Regards,

Phil