Re^4: Splitting up quoted/escaped command line arguments

[Tommy]

I'll potentially be doing hundreds of these calls in parallel and I have to avoid the overhead of shelling out every time. I've already tested and the difference is very significant when opening to ssh vs opening to a shell opening to ssh. There's a huge slowdown on the local machine when I involve the shell.

[runrig]

Store the string in the database with some token that you can split on, that won't show up in the command itself. But, the "||" in your example is a shell operation, it won't work in 'exec @args'. Ignore that last part...I see it's part of the remote command passed to ssh.

Update: Isn't the command just one arg then that's passed to ssh?

[Tommy]

In some cases there is more than one argument, and in some cases the binary command at the beginning is not ssh. =D