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!! How do I feed "s to the other end of an SSH session?
-I have a bunch of remote machines with a config gile
that has some <tt>OPTIONS=something</tt>, and I want to set them all across-the-board to <tt>OPTIONS="foo"</tt>.
+I have a bunch of remote machines with a config file
that has some <tt>OPTIONS=something</tt>, and I want to set them all across-the-board to <tt>OPTIONS="foo"</tt>.
Locally, I would use <tt>sed -i -e 's/OPTIONS=.*/OPTIONS="foo"/' file</tt>. This is hard to send over SSH however, as bash(1) locally likes to eat all your quotes, so they never reach the other end.
PerryLorier's most bodacious answer:
