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  • In practice this doesn't actually matter, as long as the command to be run comes at the end. Try this: ssh myhost -v, which will turn on the -v argument even after the host declaration. Commented Nov 14, 2016 at 1:25
  • @JamiesonBecker it might not matter now, but if you aren't following the documented way to use SSH, then expect no guarantee of future support of undocumented behaviors. Commented Nov 14, 2016 at 18:15
  • .. but it's not an answer. Or, at least not an answer to the question OP was asking. :) Commented Nov 25, 2016 at 4:06