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Old 05-17-2019
I'm with Rudi. When I have problems trying something like a complex sed command over ssh because of quoting
Steps
1. make a note of my current shell - let's say it is bash
2. play with my command on one "home" box.
3. once I got it working at "home":
paste the command into a simple two line shell script, let's call it t.sh
Code:
#!/bin/bash    
[paste required external env variables here if needed]
[paste command here]

4. automate it:
Code:
for i in `cat servername`
do
   scp myusername@$i t.sh /tmp/t.sh
   ssh myusername@$i 'chmod +x /tmp/t.sh && /tmp/t.sh'
done

This looks like a lot of work. It is not. But when you execute a complex remote one-liner command it can mess up by being garbled by ssh and your command line or wrong environment variable settings. Explaining to management why your script trashed 10 servers is a whole lot more work and time consuming.
 

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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

NAME
rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1) RESTRICTED SHELL
If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a file name containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
bash(1) GNU Bash-4.0 2004 Apr 20 RBASH(1)
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