Why are the arguments supplied for the command run through ssh interpreted by shell before they are passed to the command on the server side?

[Yuri]

On 2020-01-11 08:57, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> If you wish for no local expansion, quote locally, such as:
>
> ssh -l luser remotehost '
> 	command1
> 	command2
> 	…
> '


This didn't work for me because single quotes only prevent local 
expansion. The string is expanded on the remote host.


Yuri