Re: SSH submit remote command with parameter contain special character -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: SSH submit remote command with parameter contain special character
From: Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 09:01:07 -0600
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On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 8:55 AM Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Your problem is that to the shell the single-quote ' is a metachar that
trumps the double-quote " metachar.

That was probably poorly expressed. It's not that single-quote ' is more
powerful than double-quote "... it's that the outermost quotation starts
with the single-quote, so the next encounter of same will terminate the
quotation.

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