The first command of a nested compound command receives no arguments

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 10:21:56AM -0700, Parke wrote:
> Thanks to Timo and Christian for their answers.
> 
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 3:32 AM Timo Kilpilehto <timo at kilpilehto.fi> wrote:
> > eval sh -c "echo none of this makes any difference"
> 
> Where is it documented that ssh is going to eval my command?  The fact
> remains that ssh does not transparently pass the command to the remote
> host.

This is not a *ssh* thing, but a generic "how does quoting on unix work
if two levels of shell are involved".

gert
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