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