This is the method I ended up using for golem (https://github.com/robsheldon/golem https://github.com/robsheldon/golem), a tool I wrote for executing server doc

This is the method I ended up using for golem (https://github.com/robsheldon/golem https://github.com/robsheldon/golem), a tool I wrote for executing server documentation on remotes. Shell quoting was by far the hardest part to get right, and the base64 pipe was the only solution that correctly handled all forms of quoting embedded in the scripts.