> might fail half-way through the file Oh, while transferring! ssh -t user@example.org bash <( echo "function do_it() {"; cat my-setup-script.sh; echo -e "}

> might fail half-way through the file Oh, while transferring! ssh -t user@example.org bash <( echo "function do_it() {"; cat my-setup-script.sh; echo -e "}\ndo_it" ) No argument limits to worry about, no quoting hassles.