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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 13:38:59 +0100
From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: ssh zsh and one off commnad
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On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 13:00:39 +0100
Wawrzek Niewodniczanski <main@wawrzek.name> wrote:
> I hope you can help me in this situation. The default shell on remote
> machine is bash, but I would like from time to time run  a zsh command or
> rather set of command in a loop.  My test command for some reason doesn't
> work:
> 
> ssh remote "zsh -c 'for i (/usr/*(/)) {ls $i }'"
                                            ^^
The problem is that the $i is being substituted by the local shell,
because it's in a double-quoted expression (the single quotes inside
that are not special to the local shell).  Probably putting a backslash
in front of the $ should do the trick.

pws