setting current dir of remote shell

[Darren Tucker]

Dave Yost wrote:
> I have a command that will upload stuff from the current dir within a 
> local copy of a web site to the corresponding dir on the web server.
> http://Yost.com/computers/yostupload
> 
> The command has a -l argument that will log you in to the server via 
> ssh.  So far so good.
> 
> But I would like this -l argument to set the current dir on the 
> remote host so it is the dir corresponding to the current dir on the 
> local host.

> I can't see how to do that with ssh, and if I try something like the 
> following, ssh barfs.
> 
> #!/bin/zsh
> 
> ssh foo.com <<< cd website/bar/baz <& 0

It's not exactly the same as a login shell but it's close:
ssh -t someserver "(cd `pwd` && exec $SHELL -)"

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