On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote: > > That has simply nothing to do with SSH. Compare following: > > echo "foo bar" | while read LINE; do echo $LINE; done > > and > > echo -e "foo\nbar" | while read $LINE; do echo $LINE; done No, (a) that read $LINE should be read LINE and (b) echo "foo bar" | something should preserve the quoted newline. Ssh does seem to be consuming stuff from the inherited piped stdin even though it isn't obvious what it does with it in a non-interactive scenario. But anything that reads stdin inside the loop would cause that (throw a 'cat >dev/null' in...). -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com