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 works well for creating scripts, as you do not have to include other files:

#!/bin/bash
ssh @ "bash -s" << EOF
    # here you just type all your commmands, as you can see, i.e.
    touch /tmp/test1;
    touch /tmp/test2;
    touch /tmp/test3;
EOF

# you can use '$(which bash) -s' instead of my "bash -s" as well
# but bash is usually being found in a standard location
# so for easier memorizing it i leave that out
# since i dont fat-finger my $PATH that bad so it cant even find /bin/bash ..