SSH Command

To ssh via pem file

ssh -i /path/to/file.pem user@example.com

To connect on an non-standard port:

ssh -p 2222 user@example.com

To connect and forward the authentication agent

ssh -A user@example.com

To execute a command on a remote server:

ssh -t user@example.com 'the-remote-command'

To tunnel an x session over SSH:

ssh -X user@example.com

• Redirect traffic with a tunnel between local host (port 8080) and a remote
• host (remote.example.com:5000) through a proxy (personal.server.com):

ssh -f -L 8080:remote.example.com:5000 user@personal.server.com -N

To launch a specific x application over SSH:

ssh -X -t user@example.com 'chromium-browser'

To create a SOCKS proxy on localhost and port 9999

ssh -D 9999 user@example.com

-X use an xsession, -C compress data, “-c blowfish” use the encryption blowfish

ssh user@example.com -C -c blowfish -X

Copy files and folders through ssh from remote host to pwd with tar.gz compression. when there is no rsync command available

ssh user@example.com "cd /var/www/Shared/; tar zcf - asset1 asset2" | tar zxf -