Bash Tip - Run Command with multiple arguments with ssh

This is a note for logging my simple way to use ssh and bash with continuous integration on remote server.

You can execute the following test-cases.sh on your host.

It will execute remote script of the test with correct argument contents.

source code of test-cases.sh on host

directory layout of tester account on test-server

source code of tests.sh on test-server

result of test-cases.sh example

source ./test-cases.sh

➜  ~ run_cases "\"1\"\"" "b'\"" "c'#\"" "\"\"" "\'"

ssh test-server cd test-cases; /bin/bash ./tests.sh  "\"1\"\"" "b\'\"" "c\'\#\"" "\"\"" "\\'"

argv[1]=["1""]

argv[2]=[b\'"]

argv[3]=[c\'\#"]

argv[4]=[""]

argv[5]=[\\']

Notes

printf %q  is use to make safe quote the argument if hashtag(#), quote('), double quote(") and so on.

Appendix

• wikipedia - Bash_(Unix_shell)
• Bash Guide for Beginners -- Machtelt Garrels