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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting ssh, cd to a dir, and and then do some work. Post 302071186 by tphyahoo on Thursday 13th of April 2006 06:03:04 AM
Old 04-13-2006
ssh, cd to a dir, and and then do some work.

I want to do something like

#!/bin/bash
ssh name@computer 'cd /my/dir'

and then continue working in this directory.

Right now if I execute a script "myscript" containing the above, it just drops me back into the bash shell where I started, whereas I want to be able to do work and stuff on this other computer.

I know this command is being execututed because if I change the script to

#!/bin/bash
ssh name@computer 'echo blah > blah.txt'

blah.txt does get created on the remote computer.

So the main question is, how do I keep that remote session open rather than reverting back to my original session.

I tried

./myscript &

but that didn't work.

Obviously this is a pretty simple problem, but I figure if I can get this working I learn something that can be applied to solving more powerful scenarios.

Thanks for your help in advance!
 

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If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a file name containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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