How to pass text that has special characters like "$" on ssh command line?
Issue
- Need to run
SSHcommand remotely:
[root@myserver ~]# echo $root_line
root:$6$2AAAWg0U/5sR$iDEJqNhi0ar23hRMogGrlTNlWdYnSQRVbTKwj2ovTQFLRNB376Dt/jTiiXOSg/RzLxhIeLR9lZMpfKOBwUsJS6GJR/:19187:7:99999:7:::
[root@myserver ~]# ssh -t my-user@remote_server "sudo sed s#^root:.*#$root_line# /root/shadow2"
Enter login password:
root:AAAWg0U/5sR/jTiiXOSg/RzLxhIeLR9lZMpfKOBwUsJS6GJR/:19187:7:99999:7:::
$2 $6 $iDEJqNhi0hRMogGrlTNlWdYnSQRVbTKwj2ovTQFLRNB376Dt are missing. they are being interpreted as variables
[root@myserver ~]#
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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