Putty as an interface between cmd and sh

Question

What do I have:

• a local Windows machine and a remove Linux server
• a cmd script and an sh script on the local machine
• a specific restriction to keep no scripts on the remote machine

What do I need:

• the local cmd script to start an SSH client with specified parameters (ip:port, username@password), with that client executing the local sh script on the remote machine and passing the output back to the local machine, to the cmd script's STDOUT

Example:

whatever.cmd:

@echo off
client.exe -ip 192.168.1.1 -port 22 -username notroot -password mypwd -exec remote.sh >192.168.1.1_media.txt

Alternatively, if I convert the sh script to a set of commands sepated by ; symbol, the example may look like this:

@echo off
client.exe -ip 192.168.1.1 -port 22 -username notroot -password mypwd -command 'head `ps -aux`;df -h | grep media' >192.168.1.1_media.txt

Is there an SSH client that can be run in this way? If not, how can I make Putty do the job without using GUI?

Answer 1

Maybe plink is something for you. It is like putty but instead of keyboard and screen as input and output you can use pipes for input and output.

This way you can echo the lines of your script to the server.

Plink is downloadable at the putty site: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

There is also an extensive and detailed manual on that site.