Re: 2004-Feb-17 snapshot change ssh option parsing behavior

[Robert Collins <rbcollins at cygwin dot com>]

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 08:39, David Rothenberger wrote:
> 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?

you may find that 
ssh somehost -- bin/bash --login -c date
also works.

Rob
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