Question

I have the following script:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'net/ssh'

Net::SSH.start('host1', 'root', :password => "mypassword1") do |ssh|
    stdout = ""

    ssh.exec("cd /var/example/engines/")
    ssh.exec!( "pwd" ) do |channel, stream, data|
        stdout << data if stream == :stdout
    end
    puts stdout

    ssh.loop
end

and i get /root, instead of /var/example/engines/

Answer 1

see if there’s something analogous to the file(utils?) cd block syntax, otherwise just run the command in the same subshell, e.g. ssh.exec “cd /var/example/engines/; pwd” ?