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Re: login into a particular directory using ssh



On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 17:18:54 -0500, David Mandelberg
<mandelbergd@eth0.is-a-geek.org> 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'"
> 

I tried this. It is not working. The machine seems to be hanging. Is
there any typo there?

raju

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