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Hello sir,
Im using a FEDORA 9 system. We can invoke the terminal of any user using ssh.For example for the local domain :-
My req. is that I want to open the terminal and see that a command runs in the terminal that is opened. Eg: I want to invoke a terminal and run "ls". instead of typing it after the new terminal opens, I want to send it along with ssh.

Example : I want to send the command 'ls' as :-
But this is not working.Can you please tell me how to do it !!!

Option 1:

Code:

$ ssh root@127.0.0.1 'ls'

Option 2:

Code:

$ ssh root@127.0.0.1 'xterm -e ls'

Check the man page of gnome-terminal on how to pass along a program to run.

ssh -l root 127.0.0.1 "ls"

hello sir,
As you said :-
1)
ssh root@127.0.0.1 'ls'or
2)
ssh -l root 127.0.0.1 "ls"

THe above would execute "ls" in the current terminal.BUt what I want is that we need to execute that command in the NEW terminal that is invoked using :

ssh root@127.0.0.1 gnome-terminal

Now can you please tell me how to do it ???

As I said before, take a look at the man page of gnome-terminal, and look for the option/command line switch to tell it what command to run instead of a shell.

Hello Pludi,
I did do :
BUt fedora 9 said "NO MANUAL ENTRY for gnome-terminal."


WHat to do now sir ?????

Had to dig around a bit but I found it

Code:

--command command Executes the command command instead of  the
                  shell.  This  saves  some memory if you just
                  plan to run a dedicated application on  that
                  window.  You can also use -e to specify this
                  option.

So it's either one of these:

Code:

$ ssh root@127.0.0.1 'gnome-terminal --command ls'
$ ssh root@127.0.0.1 'gnome-terminal -e ls'

Mind, however, that since ls will exit as soon as it's done, gnome-terminal will exit too, so you'll either have to be really fast to see the output or add something else to delay exit.