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?

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Sun, 12 Jan 2020, Yuri wrote:

> This was English, not German, BTW.

For some values of English, perhaps.

> 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.

Yes, but

	ssh -z remhost sh -c "something"

is exactly identical to

	ssh remhost "something"

:þ

//mirabilos
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