Alias a command that is behind SSH jumpbox

Question

In order to run a script, I currently have to do a two step process:

ssh remote_machine
./run_script

Is it possible to setup an alias on my host machine such that I can execute an alias, for example: run_script and it will automatically log me into the remote_machine and run the script?

Answer 1

Sure, I do this all the time:

alias run_script="ssh remote_machine ./run_script"

Note that if the ./run_script script is interactive, you'll need to allocate a TTY using the -t flag to ssh:

alias run_script="ssh -t remote_machine ./run_script"