I want to write a script that will get me straight to a python shell on another box so that i don't have to first run ssh and second run python.
When I do "ssh hostname python" it just hangs - it's something to do with the fact that python is interactive. "ssh hostname cat x" works fine.
Is there some ssh option that will make this work?
ssh -t user@host python
The -t flag forces ssh to allocate a pseudo-terminal to the connection. Normally it won't do this if a command is given on the ssh command line, which results in python running in a non-interactive mode.
actually figured it out, i needed to do ssh -t hostname python
You need the -t option to force the allocation of a pseudo-tty
ssh -t host python
