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I have a deploy script that I want to run from a remote server, if I connect to the server and command manually it works fine:

ssh root@server cd /some-deploy-folder node do-something.js

But if I try to do the same by passing it into a single command to ssh:

ssh -t root@localhost <<EOF cd /some-deploy-folder node do-something.js exit EOF

Bash is unable to find the node command reporting node: command not found

Is there some reason that passing the EOL commands directly into ssh is not correctly setting up the environment?

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The problem is that when you send the command and not directly being logged in the shell is a non-interactive one and you don't have the same environment, you can read more about this on:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/698957/ssh-into-a-machine-and-then-launch-an-interactive-command-line-program

Here is more info about the type of shells:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/50665/what-is-the-difference-between-interactive-shells-login-shells-non-login-shell

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/38175/difference-between-login-shell-and-non-login-shell

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    Thanks, problem resolved by starting bash in interactive mode i.e. ssh root@server "bash -i -c 'node /some-deploy-folder/do-something.js" Commented Jul 27, 2017 at 13:32

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