Re: script with ssh and filenames with spaces

[Greg Wooledge]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 08:42:17PM +0000, gscantlen@comcast.net wrote:
> I wish to ssh this command to several hosts: 
> ls -alst "dir_with_spaces" 

for host in "${hosts[@]}"; do
  ssh "$host" bash <<-'EOF'
        ls -alst "your directory"
        EOF
done

The - in front of the here document's delimiter allows indentation with
tabs only (not spaces).

I Cc'ed help-bash@gnu.org because that's more appropriate for this
question.