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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:39:58 -0800
From: David Rothenberger <daveroth AT acm DOT org>
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Subject: Re: 2004-Feb-17 snapshot change ssh option parsing behavior
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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


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