Multiple commands on remote machine using shell script

Question

I have a Java program Desktop/testfolder/xyz.jar on a remote machine. It has a configuration file on the same folder. When I SSH into the machine, I do:

Answer 1

If you want to split your commands over multiple lines for the sake of readability, you could also pass the list of commands to the bash command as follows:

ssh user@remote.host bash -c "'
  cd Desktop/testfolder
  java -cp xyz.jar Main
'"