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		nneonneo on July 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenSSH has some peculiar handling around command ... If you do need single quotes in the inner command, you can use the "'" trick: `ssh host -- ls "'"'folder$name'"'"`

me-vs-cat on July 15, 2023 [–]

$name will never be expanded. Is that what you expected?

nneonneo on July 15, 2023 | [–]

Yes, that’s the intent: using single quotes at both levels will prevent either your shell or the remote shell from expanding the name, so you can interact with a file name containing a literal $.

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