People should disclaim which shell (type, version) is working with the different solutions offered. I'm curious to see how much variety there is... The version of /bin/sh or the remote user's SHELL as defined in /etc/password on the far end may be relevant. -Rob On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Paul Fierro <pablo at freefill.com> wrote: > On 6/17/11 6:17 AM, Scott Raun <sraun at fireopal.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:56:14PM -0500, Paul Fierro wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Trying to run this but it isn't working - I'm suspecting it's the > quotes: > >> > >> $ ssh machine1 "ssh machine2 "mysql -e "show databases""" > >> > >> I tried various combinations of single and double quotes as well as > >> backslashes. Can anyone help? > > > > I saw that you got it working, but as an alternative, does this work? > > > > $ ssh machine1 "ssh machine2 "mysql -e show\ databases"" > > Didn't work for me, but thanks for offering another alternative. > > Paul > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110617/37312f01/attachment.html>