setting current dir of remote shell

[Darren Tucker]

Bob Proulx wrote:
> Presently ssh (AFAICT) does not give a way to get to a
> POSIX shell on the remote machine.  ('ssh $HOST /bin/sh -c "cmd args"'
> almost works but requires an extra layer of shell quoting in the
> account's shell.)

It's not suitable for every purpose (eg if you need stdin on the command) but you 
can do:

ssh $HOST /bin/sh <<EOD
cmd args
EOD

which does not subject the command to the remote shell's quoting.

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