What is the cleanest way to ssh and run multiple commands in Bash?

Question

I already have an ssh agent set up, and I can run commands on an external server in Bash script doing stuff like:

ssh blah_server "ls; pwd;"
         


        

Answer 1

I see two ways:

First you make a control socket like this:

 ssh -oControlMaster=yes -oControlPath=~/.ssh/ssh-%r-%h-%p 

and run your commands

 ssh -oControlMaster=no -oControlPath=~/.ssh/ssh-%r-%h-%p  -t 

This way you can write an ssh command without actually reconnecting to the server.

The second would be to dynamically generate the script, scping it and running.