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<issue_title>Double escaped SSH commands</issue_title>
<issue_description>When running a command over SSH (eg. via the --ssh flag or an @-alias), the contents of the command flag appears to be double escaped.

Example:

wp --ssh=foo plugin list --debug

Results in:

Running SSH command: ssh -q 'foo' -t 'wp '\''plugin'\'' '\''list'\'' '\''--debug'\'''

I would expect it to be:

Running SSH command: ssh -q 'foo' -t 'wp plugin list --debug'

The double escaping appears to come from two calls to escapeshellarg, first inside WP_CLI\Runner::run_ssh_command() and secondly within the corresponding condition in WP_CLI\Runner::generate_ssh_command() (and conditions above that for Docker, Vagrant, etc).

Is there a reason for the double escaping that I'm missing?</issue_description>

Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

@danielbachhuber > Is there a reason for the double escaping that I'm missing?

Yes: I wrote bad code :) It's worth fixing.</comment_new>
<comment_new>@schlessera

after they are receiving the '

@marksabbath I'm not sure what you mean by that? I don't think we're directly adding quotes anywhere, they are only added by escapeshellarg(). Or am I missing something?</comment_new>