On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 18:48:19 -0500, David Mandelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > ssh -t [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cd / && exec /bin/bash' > > That works, but because this is a login shell, and the remote machine > may differentiate between login and non-login shells, this is better: > > ssh -t [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cd / && exec /bin/bash --login -i' > > Also don't forget the exec because otherwise you'd be running an extra > shell or the single quotes before cd and after -i. >
This does work perfectly. I am wondering if there is a clever trick to do the following. In the above examples we are specifying the destination directory. But can this directory be obtained from the original machine? For example, can I do something like bash$export DYNAMIC=$(basename $PWD) bash$ssh -t [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cd $DYNAMIC && exec /bin/bash --login -i' which dynamically determines the current directory on the ssh client and puts me into that directory on the shell.example.net? Needless to say, I tried the above example and it does not work. thanks for all the replies raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi Cornell University http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flumech/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
