CODEWITHSUNDEEP
putty
user3329270
user3329270

Reputation: 41

Paste multiple commands to PuTTY - process serially?

I have about 3000 individual commands that I need to execute on a system via PuTTY. I am doing this by copying ~100 of the commands and pasting them into a PuTTY SSH session. It works, however the issue is that PuTTY does not process them serially and the output gets garbled.

Is there a way to make PuTTY process each command, wait for a return and then process the next? The Windows command prompt does this and I'm thinking there is a way to do so with PuTTY.

Yes, I know I could put this in a Bash script, but due to circumstance outside my control, this has to be done using SSH and in a manner that can be monitored as we go and logged.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 30961

Answers (5)

bigcodeszzer
bigcodeszzer

Reputation: 940

In the PuTTY installation I have, I just paste into it and it works.

  • Open Notepad
  • Type out your list of commands
  • Highlight Notepad
  • Ctrl + C (or right click, copy)

Click on your PuTTY window. Right-click once, into where you type your commands.

You should see all of the commands inserted into your entry box.

Hit Enter.

Note: I used this to enter multiple lines into cin prompts from a C++ program compiled on Linux. I don't know if it will work directly into the terminal.

Upvotes: -1

Joshua Huber
Joshua Huber

Reputation: 3533

I do this all the time. Put your commands in a ( ) block, which will run it as a subshell, perfectly everything within serially. I'm running Windows PuTTY and connecting to Linux and AIX servers. Try it.

(
Command1
Command2
Command3
)

In practice, I might have a huge load of many 100s of statements I want to run, in Notepad++ or whatever. So I copy them to clipboard, and then in PuTTY:

(
 paste in your wad here
)

If you want to log the output from each of your statements individually, you might do something like this:

(
Command1 > /home/jon/command1output.txt
Command2 > /home/jon/command2output.txt
Command3 > /home/jon/command3output.txt
)

Or if you just want one big stream of output, you could interleave separators for easier reading later:

(
echo "~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"
echo "[`date`]  Now running Command1 ..."
Command1
echo "~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"
echo "[`date`]  Now running Command2 ..."
Command2
echo "~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"
echo "[`date`]  Now running Command3 ..."
Command3
)

Another variation using an inline function. All paste-able into PuTTY, with perfect serial running, logging as command1:output1,command2:output2,... , and capable of driving SQL*Plus.

(
  function geniusMagic() {
    echo " "
    echo "~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"
    date
    echo "RUNNING COMMAND:"
    echo " "
    echo "$*"
    echo " "
    echo "OUTPUT:"
    echo " "
    sh -c "$*"
  }

  geniusMagic df -m /home
  geniusMagic 'printf $RANDOM | sed "s/0//g"'
  geniusMagic 'echo "select count(*)
                     FROM all_tables;
                 " | sqlplus -s scott/tiger'
)

Sample output:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wed Jun 25 17:41:19 EDT 2014
RUNNING COMMAND:

df -m /home

OUTPUT:

Filesystem    MB blocks      Free %Used    Iused %Iused Mounted on
/dev/hd1        1024.00    508.49   51%     3164     3% /home

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wed Jun 25 17:41:19 EDT 2014
RUNNING COMMAND:

printf $RANDOM | sed "s/0//g"

OUTPUT:

2767
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wed Jun 25 17:41:19 EDT 2014
RUNNING COMMAND:

echo "select count(*)
                     FROM all_tables;
                 " | sqlplus -s scott/tiger

OUTPUT:


  COUNT(*)
----------
        48

Upvotes: 9

Diblo Dk
Diblo Dk

Reputation: 663

I'm not sure why you could not use Plink, but you could make a batch file with Notepad++.

plink <hostname> -l <login_name> -pw <password> <command 1>
plink <hostname> -l <login_name> -pw <password> <command 2>
plink <hostname> -l <login_name> -pw <password> <command 3>
...
plink <hostname> -l <login_name> -pw <password> <command 3000>

Run the batch file:

filename.bat > log.txt 2>&1

Batch files:

Display & Redirect Output:

Upvotes: 1

binaryatrocity
binaryatrocity

Reputation: 976

Just an idea here: PuTTY comes with a command-line tool called Plink. You could write a script on your Windows machine that creates a connection to the remote server with Plink, and then parses your list of commands one at a time and sends them.

This should look exactly the same to the remote server (which I assume is what's doing the logging), while letting you have a bit more control than copy-pasting blocks of commands.

Upvotes: 2

DavidK
DavidK

Reputation: 2564

Maybe the answer you are looking for is here.

Here a copy of the answer I think may be interesting for you :

   // Wait for backup setting prompt 
    Repeat Until %D1% = 1
      Activate Window: "DAYMISYS1.qdx.com - PuTTY"
      Mouse Move Window 12, 11                        <-------  Moves mouse to upper left corner to activate menu options
      Mouse Right Button Click
      Delay 0.1 Seconds
      Text Type: o                                    <-------  Activates Copy All to Clipboard command   
      Delay 0.2 Seconds
      If Clipboard Contains "or select a number to change a setting:"      <-------  Look for text of prompt that I am waiting for
      Repeat Exit                                     <-------  If found, exit loop and continue macro
      End If
      Delay 1 Seconds                                 <-------  If prompt is not found, continue loop
    Repeat End

Upvotes: 0

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