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.TH SSHCD 1 sshexec

.SH NAME
sshcd - open ssh(1) with a specific remote working directory

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B sshcd
.RB [ {
.RI [\fBssh=\fP ssh-command ]
.RB [ cd= ( strict | lax )]
.BR } ]
.RI [ ssh-option ]\ ...\,
.I destination

.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B sshcd
utility is a wrapper for SSH that makes it lets the user
specify the directory remote working directory.
.PP
.B sshcd
passes any argument after
.B }
to
.I ssh-command
.RB ( ssh
if not specified), except it may rewrite
.I destination
to remove information that's not supported by
.BR ssh (1).

.SH OPTIONS
.B sshcd
options may be placed at the very beginning enclosed with
the arguments
.B {
and
.BR } .
.B sshcd
options, if any, shall be placed in the same
.B {
.BR } -group.
Any other option will be passed as is to the
.BR ssh (1)
utility or
.IR ssh-command .
The
.B sshcd
utility has a build it list of options recognised by the
.BR ssh (1)
utility and will not allow anything matching this list.
The
.B sshcd
utility does not allow mixing options and operands: no
option may be placed after
.IR destination .
.PP
The following
.B sshcd
options are supported:
.TP
.BI ssh= ssh-command
Instead of looking for
.B ssh
in
.IR PATH ,
the
.B sshcd
utility shall use
.IR ssh-command ,
which it will look for in
.I PATH
if it is only a file name (does not contain a slash
.RB ( / )).
.TP
.B cd=strict
Fail without executing the
.I command
if it's not possible to set
.I directory
as the remote working directory.
.TP
.B cd=lax
Continue (but warn) executing the
.I command
even if it's not possible to set
.I directory
as the remote working directory.

.SH OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
.TP
.I destination
The destination to connect and log into. It shall be either in
the form
.RI [ user\fP\fB@ ] hostname [\fB:\fP directory ]
or in the form
.BR ssh [ cd ] :// [\fIuser @ ]\fIhostname\fP[ : \fIport\fP][ / \fIdirectory\fP].

.I user
shall be the name of the remote user. If not specified,
the name of the local user running the utility will be used.

.I hostname
shall be the address to the remote machine.

.I port
shall be the port or service name for the port to
connect to on the remote machine.

.I directory
shall be directory to change the remote working directory.

.SH STDIN
The
.B sshcd
utility itself does not use the standard input.

.SH INPUT FILES
None.

.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
The following environment variables affects the execution of
.BR sshcd :
.TP
.SH PATH
Default. See to the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1-2017, Section 8.3, Other Environment Variables.
This environment variable affects where the
.B sshcd
utility can find the
.BR ssh (1)
utility or
.IR ssh-command .
.TP
.B SSHCD_PTY_ALLOC_FLAG
Specifies the option to pass to
.BR ssh (1)
to tell SSH to allocate a pseudo terminal. If unset
.B -t
will be used. If set but empty, no flag will be passed to
.BR ssh (1).
.PP
Other environment variables may affect the execution of the
.BR ssh (1)
utility.

.SH ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS
Default.

.SH STDOUT
The
.B sshcd
utility itself does not use the standard output.

.SH STDERR
The standard error is used for diagnostic messages in the
.B sshcd
utility itself.

.SH OUTPUT FILES
None.

.SH EXTENDED DESCRIPTION
None.

.SH EXIT STATUS
The
.B sshcd
utility exits with the exit status of the
.BR ssh (1)
utility or with 255 if an error occurred.

.SH CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS
Default.

.SH APPLICATION USAGE
None.

.SH EXAMPLES
None.

.SH RATIONALE
For historical reasons, the
.B sshcd
utility does not let the user add a command to run
inside the directory. This also avoids problems; if the
user want to run a command in a specific directory,
.BR sshexec (1)
lets the user do so in an intuitive manner; for other
traditional syntax,
.BR ssh (1)
can still be used — specifying a
.BR cd (1)
command at the beginning shouldn't be a problem.

.SH NOTES
None.

.SH BUGS
None.

.SH FUTURE DIRECTIONS
None.

.SH SEE ALSO
.BR ssh (1),
.BR sshexec (1)

.SH AUTHORS
Mattias Andrée
.RI < m@maandree.se >