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I want to run a local shell script on a remote computer with SSH. How can I do this?

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ssh user@remotehost "bash -s" < local_script.sh

-s makes bash read from standard input.

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I'll have to remember that. Please let us know if that worked for you, and don't forget to mark the answer as accepted if it did. – Argusvision Oct 21 '12 at 12:16
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You don't need -s, and you only need bash if you really want to force using bash. Usually you can simply ssh user@remotehost < local_script.sh – janos Feb 6 at 14:17

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