Re: Running additional shell startup commands

[Mateusz Karbowy <mateusz.karbowy@gmail.com>]

http://serverfault.com/questions/167416/change-directory-automatically-on-ssh-login

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?)
>
> Ciao
>
> Dominik ^_^  ^_^
>
> --
>
> Dominik Vogt
> IBM Germany
>