remote ssh execution puzzle

[Phil Meyer]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Todd Zullinger wrote:
>   
>> Phil Meyer wrote:
>>     
>>> $ ssh otherhost "uptime | awk '{print \$1}'"
>>> awk: cmd. line:1: {print \}
>>> awk: cmd. line:1:        ^ backslash not last character on line
>>>       
>> Hmmm, it works for me.  I tested against remote hosts running
>> openssh-4.2p1 and openssh-3.1p1, as well as against a more current FC6
>> openssh server (4.3p2-19.fc6).  Is there something funky about the
>> shell on 'otherhost' or perhaps the version of awk?
>>
>>
>>     
> The shell on 'otherhost' should not make a difference. It is the
> shell on the host running the ssh command that should be changing
> /$1 to $1 before sending to "otherhost'. Now, running just the
> awk '{print \$1}' on the local host will fail, generating that type
> of message.
>
> Mikkel
>   

Progress!  And still a bit of a mystery.

All were correct in that the command does work with bash.

My mistake was tunnel vision ...

It does NOT work with tcsh -- which is what old timers who refuse to be 
modernized run. :(

The original request (from my son) was called out from a bash script.  I 
should have just left the test in the script and all would have been well.

Brain fart (senior moment) on my part, sorry.

But the mystery of: "can be done in tcsh?" remains ...

Thanks all!