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 2020-01-12 11:41, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> The wording could need some translation by a native speaker, but the
> idea of this feature request is certainly sound.


This was English, not German, BTW.


> Of course you’d lose the ability to run multiple commands, redirect
> I/O, etc. when using your proposed flag.


You would lose the ability to redirect I/O in an immediate way, but you 
would always be able to run a shell command like "/bin/sh" "-c" 
"any-command | tee cmd.log | process-further" which would regain the 
ability to do everything that a shell can do.


The problem from my original message, the ability to pass an arbitrary 
shell script to a remote host, would become trivial.


Best,

Yuri