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

This can also be done as follows. Put your commands in a script, let's name it commands-inc.sh

#!/bin/bash
ls some_folder
./someaction.sh
pwd

Save the file

Now run it on the remote server.

ssh user@remote 'bash -s' < /path/to/commands-inc.sh

Never failed for me.