How do I create a directory on remote host if it doesn't exist without ssh-ing in?

Question

I\'m not sure if this is possible or not. Basically, I\'m writing a script that allows me to scp a file to my hosting. This is it so far. Argument 1 is the file and argument 2 i

Answer 1

sshfs be fancy!

Example .ssh/config

Host your-host
  HostHame example.com
  User name
  IdentitiesOnly yes
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/private_key

Local setup aside from above only requires a target mount point...

sudo mkdir /media/your-host
sudo chown ${USER}:${USER} /media/your-host

... after which things like mounting and un-mounting are far simpler to script.

Mount

sshfs your-host:within-home/some-dir /media/your-host

Unmount

fusermount -u /media/your-host

Best part about this approach, when a server allows it, is that locally running scripts can interact with the remote file system. Meaning that things like...

if ! [ -d "/media/your-host/nowhere" ]; then
  mkdir -vp "/media/your-host/nowhere"
fi

... become possible among many other tricks that can be preformed via such mounting magics.