Automating running command on Linux from Windows using PuTTY

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I have a scenario where I need to run a linux shell command frequently  with different filenames  from windows  I am using PuTTY and WinSCP to do that  requires login name and password    The file is copied to a predefined folder in the linux machine through WinSCP and then the command is run from PuTTY  Is there a way by which I can automate this through a program  Ideally I would like to right click the file from windows and issue the command which would copy the file to remote machine and run the predefined command  in PuTTy  with the filename as argument

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In case you are using Key based authentication, using saved Putty session seems to work great, for example to run a shell script on a remote server(In my case an ec2).Saved configuration will take care of authentication.

C:\Users> plink saved_putty_session_name path_to_shell_file/filename.sh

Please remember if you save your session with name like(user@hostname), this command would not work as it will be treated as part of the remote command.

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You can create a putty session  and auto load the script on the server  when starting the session   putty -load  sessionName     At remote command  point to the remote script

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Here is a totally out of the box solution    Install AutoHotKey  ahk  Map the script to a key  e g  F9  In the ahk script  a  Ftp the commands   ksh  file to the linux machine  b  Use plink like below  Plink should be installed if you have putty       plink sessionname -l username -pw password test ksh   or     plink -ssh example com -l username -pw password test ksh   All the steps will be performed in sequence whenever you press F9 in windows

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Try MtPutty  you can automate the ssh login in it  Its a great tool especially if you need to login to multiple servers many times  Try it here  Another tool worth trying is TeraTerm  Its really easy to use for the ssh automation stuff  You can get it here  But my favorite one is always MtPutty

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There could be security issues with common methods for auto-login   One of the most easiest ways is documented below    Running Putty from the Windows Command Line   And as for the part the executes the command In putty UI  Connection SSH   there s a field for remote command      4 17 The SSH panel      The SSH panel allows you to configure   options that only apply to SSH   sessions       4 17 1 Executing a specific command on the server      In SSH  you don t have to run a   general shell session on the server    Instead  you can choose to run a   single specific command  such as a   mail user agent  for example   If you   want to do this  enter the command in   the  Remote command  box    http   the earth li  sgtatham putty 0 53 htmldoc Chapter4 html   in short  your answers might just as well be similar to the text below      let Putty run command in remote server

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You can write a TCL script and establish SSH session to that Linux machine and issue commands automatically  Check http   wiki tcl tk 11542 for a short tutorial

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You can do both tasks  the upload and the command execution  using WinSCP  Use WinSCP script like   option batch abort option confirm off open your session put  1  call script sh exit   Reference for the call command  https   winscp net eng docs scriptcommand call  Reference for the  1  syntax  https   winscp net eng docs scripting syntax  You can then run the script like   winscp exe  console  script script path upload txt  parameter file to upload dat   Actually  you can put a shortcut to the above command to the Windows Explorer s Send To menu  so that you can then just right-click any file and go to the Send To   Upload using WinSCP and Execute Remote Command   name of the shortcut    For that  go to the folder  USERPROFILE  SendTo and create a shortcut with the following target   winscp path winscp exe  console  script script path upload txt  parameter  1   See Creating entry in Explorer s  Send To  menu

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Putty usually comes with the  plink  utility  This is essentially the  ssh  command line command implemented as a windows  exe  It pretty well documented in the putty manual under  Using the command line tool plink    You just need to wrap a command like   plink root myserver  etc backups do-backup sh   in a  bat script   You can also use common shell constructs  like semicolons to execute multiple commands  e g   plink read myhost ls -lrt  home read files  etc backups do-backup sh

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