On 6/17/11 12:15 AM, Brock Noland <brockn at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:56 AM, Paul Fierro <pablo at freefill.com> 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? > > Have you tried double, single, escaped double? > > $ ssh localhost "ssh localhost 'echo \"1 2\"'" > 1 2 That works - thanks! Yaron - tried removing all quotes and it didn't work. Good idea, though. Paul