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Hi,

sorry if this is the wrong forum for this question but I couldnt spot another obvious forum for it.

I have a windows shortcut which opens up a saved session in putty. From this session I then ssh to another remote server. I was wondering is there a way that I can either edit my shortcut so that it brings up my saved session then automatically runs the ssh command to the other server, or is there a way I can do it through my bash profile or something?

Just to add, I have to go via the saved session to connect to the other server because of networking reasons.

Thanks for your help.

You can't harm anything, why don't you try it out?

Edit the link to putty on your desktop and add the IP-address or name behind the putty.exe.
On the remote host, if bash is your shell, you can add something like

Code:

ENV=~/.bashrc

to your ~/.profile.
In the ~/.bashrc you can add

Code:

ssh yourremotehost

Then log out and in again, using the altered or new link on the desktop. Should work.

Thanks zaxxon,

I'm not sure I can do it on the puttyshortcut as I already have the session name of the server I connect to once putty runs. I need to then connect to another server after that one.

The bash way might work, I'll google some details on it and try it out