Double quotas problem

From: Antimo (antimogc_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/15/04

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    Date: 15 Jun 2004 09:20:12 -0700

    I all,
    I'm writing a script on a solaris machine (sh shell), and I need to
    put the following command containing double quotas:
            xmodmap -e "keysym KP_1 = 1"
    as one of the commands of the remote shell (to map the numeric pad on
    the remote machine).

    It should be something in this way:
    rsh remote_hostname "ls; pwd; xmodmap -e "keysym KP_1 = 1"; ls; pwd"
    (the ls and pwd are written to give example of a sequence of
    commands).

    The problem is that the previous line doesn't work, because I have to
    insert the double quotas inside the double quotas of the rsh. In
    addition I can't run a script on the remote machine containing the
    xmodmap command.
    Anyone knows how to write it in the correct way? I have also tested
    the following lines (without success):
    rsh remote_hostname "ls; pwd; xmodmap -e \"keysym KP_1 = 1\"; ls; pwd"
    rsh remote_hostname "(ls; pwd; (xmodmap -e \"keysym KP_1 = 1\"); ls;
    pwd)"

    Thank you for the help,
    Paolo

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