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Old 05-16-2008
shamrock shamrock is offline Forum Advisor  
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Put it in double-quotes and use $(cmd) instead of `cmd` which makes it much easier to follow.

Code:
SIZE=$(/usr/bin/ssh -q $ID@$SERVER "find $DIRECTORY -type d -exec du -sk {} \;")