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

The posted answers using multiline strings and multiple bash scripts did not work for me.

• Long multiline strings are hard to maintain.
• Separate bash scripts do not maintain local variables.

Here is a functional way to ssh and run multiple commands while keeping local context.

LOCAL_VARIABLE=test

run_remote() {
    echo "$LOCAL_VARIABLE"
    ls some_folder; 
    ./someaction.sh 'some params'
    ./some_other_action 'other params'
}

ssh otherhost "$(set); run_remote"