And don't forget that you can still set the remote environment variables, use stderr output of the remote command, pipe it and so on: $ ssh remotehost "are

And don't forget that you can still set the remote environment variables, use stderr output of the remote command, pipe it and so on: $ ssh remotehost "arecord | gzip -c" | gunzip -c | aplay records raw pcm stream an a remote machine, gzip's it and gunzip's and plays on the local machine.