> Shell parsing is hard.

In general, not for SSH specifically, I tend to close quoted bash strings instead of trying to figure out how many escapes I need. Especially useful for awk and sed.

For example:

  $ echo "One Two Three" | awk '{print "'"'"'"$2" here'"'"'"}'
  'Two here'

Ok, maybe escapes would have been easier in this particular example.

  $ echo "One Two Three" | awk '{print "\'"$2" here\'"}'
  >

No wait, that doesn't work. Why didn't that work?

  $ echo "One Two Three" | awk '{print "\\'"$2" here\\'"}'
  awk: cmd. line:1: {print "\\
  awk: cmd. line:1:        ^ unterminated string
  awk: cmd. line:1: {print "\\
  awk: cmd. line:1:        ^ syntax error

...Nevermind, my original way is still better for me.