Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <40328A2E.80900@acm.org> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:39:58 -0800 From: David Rothenberger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 2004-Feb-17 snapshot change ssh option parsing behavior References: <16434.32879.365152.633519@forbin.entomo.com> <20040217212425.GB18953@cygbert.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20040217212425.GB18953@cygbert.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 17 12:58, David Rothenberger wrote: > We're using the latest plain BSD getopt() now. It's permuting the > options by default. This was switched off by default in Cygwin so far. > > Typically you should quote the command you send to the remote host: > > ssh somehost '/bin/bash --login -c date' Yeah, that's an easy fix for this simple case, but I have a bunch of other scripts that have quotes in the command sent to ssh, which makes adding another level of quotes "fun." > Another way to accomplish what you want is to set the environment > variable POSIXLY_CORRECT prior to calling ssh. That's helpful. Thanks. This change broke a number of my scripts. I wonder how many other similar error reports will be made by other users when 1.5.8 is released? Dave -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/