how to ssh to the remote path?

ssh user@server -t "cd /some/directory; bash --login"

• -t keeps up the connection if there is user interaction)
• the "command" is in quotes
• bash --login is required to keep up the connection after the cd (see -t)

I think you are mixing scp and ssh

For ssh you do not need to specify the destination path. You just log in as [email protected] and you land into the user's home folder.

SSH expects the following syntax:

ssh [other_options] [user@]hostname [command]

so when you typed:

ssh [email protected]:~/apps/

SSH understood that you want to connect to a host named "abc.com:~/apps/" with a user "user". Since that host does not exist, you receive the error you quoted.

You will have to break your command into two like this:

ssh [email protected]
(type the password, and wait for ssh to log you in)
cd ~/apps/