On 08/09/2016 10:35 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
it gags on ssh system2 <<EOF blah, blah EOF.
Mostly, I have a multiline awk script in the script, with \ at the end of each line
You are probably overlooking that in bash, "here documents" are subject to expansion according rules documented in the bash man page, unless you quote the word you use as the here document delimeter.
That is, try:
ssh system2 <<"EOF" blah, blah EOF