I ran into the double hyphen problem just a couple of days ago. Here’s how to fix it on MacOS
https://www.tjvantoll.com/2015/11/13/em-dash-and-hyphens/
Also, I found that waiting about 5 seconds before typing the second hyphen will work.
P.S. I was surprised that I never had run into this before, then realized I recently switched to zsh. Still, it seems weird that would impact cli on remote Linux boxes.