If you can invest a little bit of time in configuration of the remote host, then my "special shell" (also mentioned elsewhere on this page) may be of use, and you will no longer need to hit yourself in the face so often!
neat. one little pedantic note, argsh requires all arguments to be valid unicode strings while I think at least Linux allows argv to be arbitrary sequences of non-zero bytes. But then I really hope there are not many cases where that is relevant consideration.