Re: chaining ssh commands

From: Jacques-Olivier Haenni (jo_no_spam_at_haenni.info)
Date: 09/26/05

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    Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 09:13:43 +0200
To: tom <weiyetang@yahoo.com>

    Hello,

    This can simply be performed as follows:

    ssh me@remotebox 'cd /usr/me; tar -xvf me.tar'

    Cheers,

    Jacques-Olivier

    tom wrote:

    >Hi,
    >
    >I need to cd to /usr/me directory on the remote machine and extract
    >me.tar in that directory. I'm wondering how we can chain ssh commands
    >like this:
    >
    >ssh me@remotebox cd /usr/me;ssh me@remotebox tar -xvf me.tar
    >
    >Unfortunately, ssh will relogin into /home/me directory to extract the
    >tar instead of using /usr/me directory. Does someone have an idea of
    >how to do that properly?
    >
    >Thanks in advance.
    >
    >Tom
    >
    >
    >

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