Bash – running remote command with arguments and shell using ssh

You defined a bash function. So you are already in a bash shell when invoking that function. So that function could then simply look like:

clock(){
  echo "do something"
  $@
}

That function can be invoked with bash builtins, special reserved words, commands, other defined functions:

An alias:

$ clock type ls
do something
ls is aliased to `ls --color=auto'

A bash builtin:

$ clock type type
do something
type is a shell builtin

Another function:

$ clock clock
do something
do something

An executable:

$ clock date
do something
Tue Apr 21 14:11:59 CEST 2015

This has been asked and answered many times elsewhere, including:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/940533/how-do-i-set-path-such-that-ssh-userhost-command-works
• https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/15207/dot-file-not-sourced-when-running-a-command-via-ssh
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/216202/why-does-an-ssh-remote-command-get-fewer-environment-variables-then-when-run-man

and many others. I think the first one is the best answer I found in a few seconds of looking