Re: login into a particular directory using ssh
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 05:18:54PM -0500, David Mandelberg wrote:
> 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'"
Alternatively, if you *always* want to start in that directory, you
can edit the .bash_profile or similar on the remote machine. Just add
`cd <some directory>'.
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