start remote jupyter notebook server over ssh

start_jupyter_server.sh

#!/bin/bash

# start a jupyter server running on a remote host
# and port-forward to local machine
remote_host=$1
terminal=x-terminal-emulator

# start remote jupyter session on port:8889
$terminal ssh $remote_host "ipython notebook --no-browser --port=8889"

# port-forwarding to localhost:8888
ssh -N -f -L localhost:8888:localhost:8889 $remote_host

# open in default web-browser
xdg-open http://localhost:8888

Remember to close port forwarding on remote host afterwards!!