[Brian May] > Is there anyway you can disable this implicit shell, either with ssh > or rsh? I really don't like it. I would rather each parameter be > passed straight to the remote executable via exec without being > parsed by sh first. So you want rsh/ssh to do the job of word splitting? The question is how elaborate its shell-emulation parser should be. Handle \ and " and ' quoting? Expand environment variables? Expand globs? Execute $() nested commands? Handle | or || or && or >> or ! or <& or ; or & or ~? Implement builtins such as chdir and while? Not everyone would agree on where to draw the line. Easiest just to exec /bin/sh -c and let a real shell do what shells do. That would be the Least Surprise, by far.
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