Cant do cd via Posh-SSH on a Linux remote

Question

I made a PowerShell script that connects to a linux pc using Posh-SSH. The script works fine but i found that i cant cd through directories for some reason.

This is how i pass the commands to Posh-SSH session:

$input = Read-Host "AutoSSH>"
$result = Invoke-SSHCommand -SessionId 0 -Command $input
$result.Output

The script is made so that SessionId 0 is the only possible active at the time and the $result just prints the output in a better way than Posh-SHH does. I have tried ls, service commands (like apache2 start/status), and more with expected results.

But when i try to cd it doesn't work. This is how i try and what i get in my tests:

Invoke-SSHCommand -SessionId 0 -Command "ls"

Host       : 192.168.xx.xxx
Output     : {asd.txt, Desktop, Documents, Downloads...}
ExitStatus : 0

Invoke-SSHCommand -SessionId 0 -Command "cd Desktop"

Host       : 192.168.xx.xxx
Output     : {}
ExitStatus : 0

Invoke-SSHCommand -SessionId 0 -Command "ls"

Host       : 192.168.xx.xxx
Output     : {asd.txt, Desktop, Documents, Downloads...}
ExitStatus : 0

I already read a lot of forums, Posh-SSH issues or docs with no answer to this problem.

why is this happening? Thanks

Answer 1

Thanks to the comments in the post and some testing i found this:

When i ran the commands, the cd was actually doing its job and that's why the command "cd Desktop; ls" displayed the correct info from the Desktop.

I found that the commands are always run in /root. Thus, "ls" was going to show the /root files every time, even if i pre-run a cd command in a different call.

Hope this info helps someone in the future!