How to ssh and cd to the current directory?
Peng Yu
there is a way to supply a directory (that is /home/name/some_dir in
this case) to it, so that it will go to the directory directly.
$pwd
/home/name/some_dir
$ssh localhost # I want to change the directory to /home/name/some_dir
after sshed to localhost
$pwd
/home/name
Nico Kadel-Garcia
I don't think there's anything built in, but you could do something
like this:
# ssh targethost '(cd /targetdir; /bin/bash)'
That should get you a working shell in the target directory, and
terminate your connection when you leave that shell.
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
> Peng Yu <peng...@gmail.com> writes:
> > ssh by default only goes to the home directory ~. I'm wondering if
> > there is a way to supply a directory (that is /home/name/some_dir in
> > this case) to it, so that it will go to the directory directly.
> like this:
>
> # ssh targethost '(cd /targetdir; /bin/bash)'
>
> That should get you a working shell in the target directory, and
> terminate your connection when you leave that shell.
You need to add -t, otherwise your shell will think it's reading a
script from /dev/stdin rather than running an interactive session. You
won't get a prompt, command-line editing etc., and you won't be able to
run any screen-oriented programs (such as top).
DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no
Peng Yu
> Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> writes:
I tried the following command.
ssh targethost '(cd /targetdir; /bin/bash -t)'
It does not give a prompt. When I type 'top', it prints 'TERM
environment variable not set.' then return to the shell in my local
machine.
Would you please help test if you also see the same thing?
Regards,
Peng
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
> I tried the following command.
>
> ssh targethost '(cd /targetdir; /bin/bash -t)'
ssh -t targethost 'cd /targetdir; /bin/bash'
Unruh
>On Oct 10, 12:21=A0pm, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <d...@des.no> wrote:
>> Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> writes:
>> > Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> writes:
>> > > ssh by default only goes to the home directory ~. I'm wondering if
>> > > there is a way to supply a directory (that is /home/name/some_dir in
>> > > this case) to it, so that it will go to the directory directly.
>> > I don't think there's anything built in, but you could do something
>> > like this:
>>
>> > # ssh targethost '(cd /targetdir; /bin/bash)'
>>
>> > That should get you a working shell in the target directory, and
>> > terminate your connection when you leave that shell.
>>
>> You need to add -t, otherwise your shell will think it's reading a
>> script from /dev/stdin rather than running an interactive session. =A0You
>> won't get a prompt, command-line editing etc., and you won't be able to
>> run any screen-oriented programs (such as top).
>>
>> DES
>> --
>> Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - d...@des.no
>I tried the following command.
>ssh targethost '(cd /targetdir; /bin/bash -t)'
>It does not give a prompt. When I type 'top', it prints 'TERM
>environment variable not set.' then return to the shell in my local
>machine.
>Would you please help test if you also see the same thing?
Uh, -t is the argument to ssh, not to bash.
ssh -t target 'cd /targetdir; /bin/bash '
for example.
>Regards,
>Peng
