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I am having an issue passing a command through ssh which uses an environment variable. I would like the environment variable to be read from the remote host, but it is being read from the local host. For instance: ssh rhost ls -lm $WWW_HOME $WWW_HOME is set as /usr/www on local but /var/www on the remote so it is being read as : ssh rhost ls -lm /usr/www and I'd like it to be ssh rhost ls -lm /var/www Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks for your help.