Executing command remotely with ssh, and PATH

[C de-Avillez]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 14:42:49 +0100
Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> There is apparently something I am not understanding about ssh or
> environment variables.  I can execute a command remotely using ssh,
> something like
> ssh remote_server "command_to_execute"
> and that works ok.  However in another case I need to add to the path
> before executing the command so I to test the concept I tried
> ssh remote_server "PATH=/some/path:$PATH; echo $PATH"
> but it just shows the original path.  If I login to the remote server
> and copy/paste the above command then it shows the extended path as
> expected.


(others already answered on the basic issue)

Depending on the shell you are running remotely, you may also have to
export the new variable setting, like:

PATH=/whatever; export PATH # bash syntax

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