Re: Can someone explain this?

[Jon Seymour]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> I am a big fan of piping the script to the remote shell.
>
>  $ echo "cd /tmp && pwd" | ssh example.com bash
>  /tmp
>
> This has two advantages.  One is that you can pick your shell on the
> remote host.  Otherwise it runs as whatever is configured for that
> user in the password file.  If the remote host has csh configured then
> this overrides it and provides a known shell on the remote end.  Two
> is that since this is stdin it avoids having two different shells
> parse the command line.  Quoting is then much simplified.
>

Makes sense...thanks.

jon.