Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 08/09/2016 10:35 AM, m.roth at 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 Actually, the script itself is ksh. However, finally getting to email with my manager, he just did it the simpler way, with a separate script to run it. And the reason I didn't realize that his script was working as designed is that unless I fed /dev/null into his script, rather than send a email, it printed the report to the screen.... mark