Very similar with Run a command in an interactive shell with ssh after sourcing .bashrc, yet the answer there doesn't work for me.
I want to to execute remote command via ssh under the full interactive shell. I.e.,
run a remote command under the login shell, with some parameters.
Basically, I need the following two cases to work:
ssh user@remote_computer -t bash -l -c '/bin/echo PATH is $PATH'
ssh user@remote_computer -t 'bash -l -c "java -version"'
But currently I got a blank line from case 1, and -version: line 1: java: command not found from case 2:
$ ssh user@remote_computer -t bash -l -c '/bin/echo PATH is $PATH'
Connection to remote_computer closed.
$ ssh user@remote_computer -t bash -l -c 'true; /bin/echo PATH is $PATH'
PATH is /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
Connection to remote_computer closed.
ssh user@remote_computer -t bash -l -c 'true; java -version'
bash: line 1: java: command not found
Connection to remote_computer closed.
UPDATE:
At least two people think it is a quoting problem, but please can any one explain why it is a quoting problem, and how can I get what I wanted above. For e.g., this is also what I had tried:
ssh user@remote_computer -t 'bash -l -c "java -version"'
bash: line 1: java: command not found
Connection to remote_computer closed.
And I've run out of ideas how to quote it in a different way. Please help!
If I run the same command after ssh user@remote_computer, I'll get:
$ bash -l -c "java -version"
openjdk version "11.0.15" 2022-04-19 LTS
OpenJDK Runtime Environment Zulu11.56+19-CA (build 11.0.15+10-LTS)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Zulu11.56+19-CA (build 11.0.15+10-LTS, mixed mode)
So this is clearly not a quoting problem to me.
