Ubuntu SSH alias for remote subfolder

Question

I'm trying to make it ease for me by creating alias for ssh connection to my server. So I created alias in the

~/.bashrc

as follows:

alias aliasname='ssh login@ip -p 59184'

But I want to make several diffent aliases for my subfolders on the server. I tried to to something like

alias aliasname='ssh login@ip:/path/to/subfolder -p 59184'
alias aliasname='ssh login@ip/path/to/subfolder -p 59184'
alias aliasname='ssh login@ip::/path/to/subfolder -p 59184'

but always get error like Name or service not known, so clearly I do it wrong. Can someone help me here?

P.S. I should mention that regular alias to the server root works fine.

Answer 1

This is the sort of thing which can and should be achieved by an ssh config file in your ~/.ssh directory. See the man pages here:

https://linux.die.net/man/5/ssh_config

EDIT: actually you can't change remote dirs in the config file, see this post:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14387872/ssh-config-file-alias-to-get-to-a-directory-on-server

Which basically has this in ~/.ssh/config

Host dev
  Hostname server.com
  User joe

and this in ~/.bash_profile

alias domain1 = "ssh dev -t 'cd domains/domain1; bash'"