shell - Execute multiple commands on remote server using bash

Question

I want to execute cd and scp commands on a remote server which have to be logged in with a different sudo user. Below code snippet asks for the password(echos on screen) for my user but hangs there. It doesn't execute cd

#!/bin/bash
server=myserver.com
ssh $server 'sudo -S -u <user> -i; cd dir1/dir2/; scp file1 user@local-sever'

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65829252/execute-multiple-commands-on-remote-server-using-bash

Answer 1

The issue is that you have a semi colon before cd and so sudo has no command to execute. Remove the ; and it should work:

ssh $server 'sudo -S -u <user> -i scp dir1/dir2/file1 user@local-sever'