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Re: login into a particular directory using ssh



ssh user@hostname "sh -c 'cd dirname; exec somecommand'"

somecommand is the command you want to run after cd'ing. E.g. if you
want to run bash in / as joe at shell.example.net:

ssh joe@shell.example.net "sh -c 'cd /; exec bash'"

Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> I am trying to ssh from A to B. I want to login into a particular
> directory on B instead of $HOME. How can I do this?
> 
> I tried 
> ssh user@hostname cd dirname
> 
> but that is not working. Any other ideas?
> 
> thanks
> raju
> 

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David Mandelberg
mandelbergd@eth0.is-a-geek.org

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