To step through this recipe, you will need rhc installed on your machine. Also, we will use the OpenShift application created in the Creating an OpenShift application using the rhc command-line client recipe.

To run the ls command without performing SSH into the application server, you should run the following command:

$ rhc app-ssh --app myapp --command ls

The rhc ssh command is a short hand for rhc app-ssh. Both these commands allow you to SSH into an application gear.

The rhc app-ssh command internally uses the SSH command-line client to connect with the application gear. With the SSH command-line client, you can specify the command:

$ ssh [email protected] command

The rhc command-line client provides a --command option that allows you to specify a command you want to run...