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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# THIS FILE IS PART OF THE CYLC WORKFLOW ENGINE.
+# Copyright (C) NIWA & British Crown (Met Office) & Contributors.
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+# Test simple remote run-host.
+# The workflow requires Jinja2 string variable set on the command line, to
+# check that quoting survives remote invocation.
+
+export REQUIRE_PLATFORM='loc:remote fs:indep runner:background'
+. "$(dirname "$0")/test_header"
+
+set_test_number 3
+
+BASE_GLOBAL_CONFIG="
+[scheduler]
+    [[events]]
+        abort on inactivity timeout = True
+        abort on stall timeout = True
+        inactivity timeout = PT1M
+        stall timeout = PT1M
+[scheduler]
+    [[run hosts]]
+        available = ${CYLC_TEST_HOST}"
+
+TEST_NAME="${TEST_NAME_BASE}"
+init_workflow "${TEST_NAME}" - <<'__FLOW_CONFIG__'
+#!Jinja2
+# {{COMMENT}}
+[scheduling]
+    [[graph]]
+        R1 = "foo"
+[runtime]
+    [[foo]]
+__FLOW_CONFIG__
+
+# run workflow on localhost normally
+create_test_global_config '' "${BASE_GLOBAL_CONFIG}"
+
+run_fail "${TEST_NAME}-validate-fail" \
+    cylc validate "${WORKFLOW_NAME}"
+
+run_ok "${TEST_NAME}-validate" \
+    cylc validate "${WORKFLOW_NAME}" -s 'COMMENT="shake & bake"'
+
+run_ok "${TEST_NAME}-run" \
+    cylc play "${WORKFLOW_NAME}" -n -s 'COMMENT="shake & bake"'
+
+purge