Re: chaining ssh commands

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_gate.dodgy.net.au)
Date: 09/26/05 

Date: 26 Sep 2005 09:12:53 GMT

On 2005-09-26, Jacques-Olivier Haenni <jo_no_spam@haenni.info> wrote:
> This can simply be performed as follows:
>
> ssh me@remotebox 'cd /usr/me; tar -xvf me.tar'

Note that if the "cd" fails it will still run the second command.
In this example it's probably not a big deal, but under other conditions
it might be.

To prevent that, use "&&" instead, eg:
$ ssh me@remotebox 'cd /usr/me && tar -xvf me.tar' 

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