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Windows 10 has a built-in SSH client that you can use in Windows Terminal.
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to set up a profile in Windows Terminal that uses SSH.
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You can start an SSH session in your command prompt by executing ssh manhthevinh1989@gmail.com and you will be prompted to enter your password. You can create a Windows Terminal profile that does this on startup by adding the commandline setting to a profile in your settings.json file inside the list of profile objects.
{ "name": "manhthevinh1989@gmail.com ssh profile", "commandline": "ssh manhthevinh1989@gmail.com" } For more information, see:
- Windows Terminal Profile – General settings
Specify starting directory
To specify the starting directory for a ssh session invoked by Windows Terminal, you can use this command:
{ "commandline": "ssh -t manhthevinh1989@gmail.com \"cd /data/bob && exec bash -l\"" } The -t flag forces pseudo-terminal allocation. This can be used to execute arbitrary screen-based programs on a remote machine, e.g. when implementing menu services. You will need to use escaped double quotes as bourne shell derivatives don’t do any additional parsing for a string in single quotes.
For more information, see:
- GH Issue: How to specify the starting directory for a ssh session?
- StackOverflow: How can I ssh directly to a particular directory?
Resources
- How to Enable and Use Windows 10’s New Built-in SSH Commands
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