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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 08:55:45 +0100
From: Dominik Vogt <vogt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: Running additional shell startup commands
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> On 30 July 2015 at 07:24, Dominik Vogt <vogt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Often, I ssh to another machine, and the first thing I do there is
> > to change the working directory, e.g.
> >
> >   $ ssh <some machine>
> >   $ cd ~/src/git/...
> >
> > I'm looking for a way to specify that in some way on the ssh
> > command line but cannot figure out how to do that.  Zsh takes
> > either input from stdin, or from a command specified with -c, or
> > from a script, so things like
> >
> >   $ ssh <...> zsh -c 'cd ~/src/git' -s
> >
> > or
> >
> >   $ ssh <...> zsh -s <script>
> >
> > don't work.  The only thing I can think of would be to copy a
> > script to the machine with scp and source that at shell startup,
> > but that is way too much bother and too limited in application to
> > be useful (works only if the config on the target machine is
> > changed).
> >
> > (Is there a good reason why -s cannot be combined with -c or a
> > script name anyway?)

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 08:45:00AM +0100, Mateusz Karbowy wrote:
> http://serverfault.com/questions/167416/change-directory-automatically-on-ssh-login

This does it:

  $ ssh -Y <machine> -t 'cd <dir>; exec zsh -i --login'
                    ^^^^

The "-t" is important.

Ciao

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

-- 

Dominik Vogt
IBM Germany