SSH Into a Particular Directory
Last updated: 2020-06-25
Basic functionality:
ssh user@remote-system
cd <some-directory>
The following command will automatically cd into a directory called dir1 after SSH into a remote system (in this example 192.168.225.52).
ssh -t user@192.168.225.52 'cd /home/subdirectory/dir1 ; bash'
The above command will SSH into a remote system (192.168.225.52) and immediately cd into a directory named ‘/home/subdirectory/dir1’ directory and finally leave you at the remote system’s shell.
Here, the -t flag is used to force pseudo-terminal allocation, which is necessary for an interactive shell. If you don’t specify this flag, then no prompt will appear. And also if you don’t add ” bash” at the end of the above command, the connection will get terminated and return control to the local system.