Re: [Help-bash] script with ssh and filenames with spaces

[Greg Wooledge]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 02:04:25PM +1000, Matthew Cengia wrote:
> I think Greg was probably onto something with his here-doc, but I can't
> get that to work either.

Really?  Works for me.

imadev:~$ ssh vandev bash <<-'EOF'
>       mkdir "/tmp/foo bar"
>       ls -ld "/tmp/foo bar"
>       EOF
address@hidden's password: 
mkdir: cannot create /tmp/foo bar: File exists
-rw-r--r--   1 wooledg    pgmr             0 Aug 22  2002 /tmp/foo bar

Oops.  I already had a file by that name. ;-)

What, exactly, did you try, and what was the result?