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user2740
Asked: 2017-10-25 07:45:30 +0800 CST

Cannot ssh into folder structure

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I have a server server.name. With a folder /home/user229472/folder

I can use ssh like this:

ssh [email protected]
cd folder
...

scp works as well:

scp [email protected]:folder/file.txt .

But I cannot ssh directly into folder:

ssh [email protected]:folder
ssh: Could not resolve hostname server.name:folder: Name or service not known

I've tried lots of variations but none works:

 ssh [email protected]:22
 ssh [email protected]/
 ssh [email protected]/home/
 ssh [email protected]/home/user229472
 ssh [email protected]:/home
 ssh [email protected]:/home/
 ssh [email protected]:/home/user229472/folder
 ssh [email protected]:/folder
 ssh [email protected]:folder
server

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    This should do it:

    ssh <user@server> -t 'cd <path to directory on remote server>; "$SHELL" -l'

    In your case:

    ssh [email protected] -t 'cd folder; "$SHELL" -l'
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  2. Ssh gives you a login shell, after verifing your identity you will be logged in the remote system. After having done this you can use commands like cd. If you want to mount a remote folder locally, use sshfs: sshfs user@remotehost:/path/to/remotefolder /path/to/localmountpoint Now you can acces the remotefolder via localmountpoint

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