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

SSH and Run Multiple Commands in Bash.

Separate commands with semicolons within a string, passed to echo, all piped into the ssh command. For example:

echo "df -k;uname -a" | ssh 192.168.79.134

Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal.
Filesystem     1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2       18274628 2546476  14799848  15% /
tmpfs             183620      72    183548   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1         297485   39074    243051  14% /boot
Linux newserv 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Nov 10 22:19:54 EST 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux