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If you do need single quotes in the inner command, you can use the "'" trick: ssh host -- ls "'"'folder$name'"'"

• me-vs-cat 3y ago
  $name will never be expanded. Is that what you expected?
  • nneonneo 3y ago
    Yes, that’s the intent: using single quotes at both levels will prevent either your shell or the remote shell from expanding the name, so you can interact with a file name containing a literal $.