diff --git a/src/parallel b/src/parallel
index a53896a8..067dea9b 100755
--- a/src/parallel
+++ b/src/parallel
@@ -5953,9 +5953,19 @@ sub wrapped {
 	    # Prepend \nice -n19 $SHELL -c
 	    # and quote.
 	    # The '\' before nice is needed to avoid tcsh's built-in
-	    $command = '\nice'. " -n". $opt::nice. " ".
-		$Global::shell. " -c ".
-		::shell_quote_scalar($command);
+	    my $sshlogin = $self->sshlogin();
+	    my $serverlogin = $sshlogin->serverlogin();
+	    if($serverlogin eq ":") {
+		# Local use $Global::shell
+		$command = '\nice'. " -n". $opt::nice. " ".
+		    $Global::shell. " -c ".
+		    ::shell_quote_scalar($command);
+	    } else {
+		# Remote systems use $SHELL
+		$command = '\nice'. " -n". $opt::nice. 
+		    ' $SHELL -c '.
+		    ::shell_quote_scalar($command);
+	    }
 	}
 	if($opt::cat) {
 	    # Prepend 'cat > {};'
@@ -5981,7 +5991,12 @@ sub wrapped {
 	$command = $self->sshlogin_wrap($command);
 	if(@Global::cat_partials) {
 	    # Prepend:
-	    # < /tmp/foo perl -e 'while(@ARGV) { sysseek(STDIN,shift,0) || die; $left = shift; while($read = sysread(STDIN,$buf, ($left > 32768 ? 32768 : $left))){ $left -= $read; syswrite(STDOUT,$buf); } }'  0 0 0 11 |
+	    # < /tmp/foo perl -e 'while(@ARGV) {
+	    #   sysseek(STDIN,shift,0) || die; $left = shift;
+	    #   while($read = sysread(STDIN,$buf, ($left > 32768 ? 32768 : $left))){
+	    #     $left -= $read; syswrite(STDOUT,$buf);
+	    #   }
+	    # }'  0 0 0 11 |
 	    $command = (shift @Global::cat_partials). " | ($command)";
 	} elsif($opt::pipe) {
 	    # Prepend EOF-detector to avoid starting $command if EOF.
diff --git a/testsuite/tests-to-run/parallel-local-ssh4.sh b/testsuite/tests-to-run/parallel-local-ssh4.sh
index f86adc75..b14afdc0 100644
--- a/testsuite/tests-to-run/parallel-local-ssh4.sh
+++ b/testsuite/tests-to-run/parallel-local-ssh4.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 # SSH only allowed to localhost/lo
-cat <<'EOF' | sed -e s/\$SERVER1/$SERVER1/\;s/\$SERVER2/$SERVER2/ | parallel -vj8 -k --joblog /tmp/jl-`basename $0` -L1
+cat <<'EOF' | sed -e s/\$SERVER1/$SERVER1/\;s/\$SERVER2/$SERVER2/ | parallel -vj7 -k --joblog /tmp/jl-`basename $0` -L1
 echo '### zsh'
   ssh zsh@lo 'fun="() { echo function from zsh to zsh \$*; }"; 
               export fun; 
@@ -60,4 +60,7 @@ echo '### bug #44371: --trc with csh complains'
   cat file1.a file2.b; 
   rm /tmp/file1 /tmp/file2 /tmp/file1.a /tmp/file2.b
 
+echo '### bug #44143: csh and nice'
+  parallel --nice 1 -S csh@lo setenv B {}\; echo '$B' ::: OK
+
 EOF
diff --git a/testsuite/wanted-results/parallel-local-ssh4 b/testsuite/wanted-results/parallel-local-ssh4
index 72e5221a..d05f23cf 100644
--- a/testsuite/wanted-results/parallel-local-ssh4
+++ b/testsuite/wanted-results/parallel-local-ssh4
@@ -65,3 +65,7 @@ echo '### bug #44371: --trc with csh complains'
   cd /tmp; echo 1 > file1; echo 2 > file2;   parallel -Scsh@lo --trc {1}.a --trc {2}.b 'echo A {1} > {1}.a; echo B {2} > {2}.b' ::: file1 ::: file2;   cat file1.a file2.b;   rm /tmp/file1 /tmp/file2 /tmp/file1.a /tmp/file2.b
 A file1
 B file2
+echo '### bug #44143: csh and nice'
+### bug #44143: csh and nice
+  parallel --nice 1 -S csh@lo setenv B {}\; echo '$B' ::: OK
+OK