[SOLVED] SSH into particular directory: problems

hydraMax · 07-20-2011, 12:29 AM

So, I wanted to give myself a short cut to not just login to a remote server, but also change into a particular directory once I got there. This was harder than I expected, but this finally worked when I wrapped this up into a short cut:

ssh -t user@example.com 'cd /var/www/mydir; bash'

And I just alter the directory path to make another shortcut to a different place on the same server.

This does work, however, it seems when I log in this way, some of my environment is lost, and my locale is set back to the default "POSIX". That's not good. What's going on here and how should I fix it?

I'm running Gentoo Linux (amd64).

catkin · 07-20-2011, 12:54 AM

You could try

Code:

ssh -t user@example.com 'bash --rcfile ~/.my_cd'

and create ~/.my_cd with

Code:

source ~/.bashrc
cd /var/www/mydir

Depending on which bash initialisation file you want to use, change the source ~/.bashrc line as required.

hydraMax · 07-20-2011, 11:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by catkin

You could try

Code:

ssh -t user@example.com 'bash --rcfile ~/.my_cd'

and create ~/.my_cd with

Code:

source ~/.bashrc
cd /var/www/mydir

Depending on which bash initialisation file you want to use, change the source ~/.bashrc line as required.

Thanks... a bit more complicated than ideal, but it seems to work fine. I replaced your source ~/.bashrc with source /etc/profile which in my distro gets the global environment settings.

catkin · 07-21-2011, 12:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hydraMax

Thanks... a bit more complicated than ideal, but it seems to work fine. I replaced your source ~/.bashrc with source /etc/profile which in my distro gets the global environment settings.

Glad it worked for you

Probably /etc/profile has already been sourced in which case the line is not required. AIUI, the file named after --rcfile is the functional equivalent of .bashrc

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