how to ssh to the remote path?

Question

I have a folder in ~/apps/ and another one in the root /apps/

I want to ssh to them

ssh [email protected]:~/apps/

and

ssh [email protected]:/apps/ 

I got the following error:

Could not resolve hostname

What did I do wrong?

Answer 1

ssh user@server -t "cd /some/directory; bash --login"

• -t keeps up the connection if there is user interaction)
• the "command" is in quotes
• bash --login is required to keep up the connection after the cd (see -t)

Answer 2

SSH expects the following syntax:

ssh [other_options] [user@]hostname [command]

so when you typed:

ssh [email protected]:~/apps/

SSH understood that you want to connect to a host named "abc.com:~/apps/" with a user "user". Since that host does not exist, you receive the error you quoted.

You will have to break your command into two like this:

ssh [email protected]
(type the password, and wait for ssh to log you in)
cd ~/apps/

Answer 3

I think you are mixing scp and ssh

For ssh you do not need to specify the destination path. You just log in as [email protected] and you land into the user's home folder.

Answer 4

Edit: You can always ssh as [email protected] and then just navigate to the desired folder using cd folderName

Ozair Kafray explained it better

Answer 5

Below let me to login & go to a directory in one line, on ubuntu:

ssh [email protected] -t "cd /path/to/your/directory/; `echo $SHELL --login`"

OR just

ssh [email protected] -t "cd /path/to/your/directory/; bash --login"

Best of luck