Best way to script remote SSH commands in Batch Windows

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I am looking to script something in batch which will need to run remote ssh commands on Linux  I would want the output returned so I can either display it on the screen or log it   I tried putty exe -ssh user host -pw password -m command run but it doesn t return anything on my screen   Anyone done this before

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You can also use Bash on Ubuntu on Windows directly  E g    bash -c  ssh -t user computer  cd    sudo my-command     Per Martin Prikryl s comment below      The -t enables terminal emulation  Whether you need the terminal emulation for sudo depends on configuration  and by default you do no need it  while many distributions override the default   On the contrary  many other commands need terminal emulation

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The -m switch of PuTTY takes a path to a script file as an argument  not a command   Reference  https   the earth li  sgtatham putty latest htmldoc Chapter3 html using-cmdline-m  So you have to save your command  command run  to a plain text file  e g  c  path command txt  and pass that to PuTTY   putty exe -ssh user host -pw password -m c  path command txt     Though note that you should use Plink  a command-line connection tool from PuTTY suite   It s a console application  so you can redirect its output to a file  what you cannot do with PuTTY    A command-line syntax is identical  an output redirection added   plink exe -ssh user host -pw password -m c  path command txt  gt  output txt   See Using the command-line connection tool Plink   And with Plink  you can actually provide the command directly on its command-line   plink exe -ssh user host -pw password command  gt  output txt     Similar questions  Automating running command on Linux from Windows using PuTTY Executing command in Plink from a batch file

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As an alternative option you could install OpenSSH http   www mls-software com opensshd html and then simply ssh user host -pw password -m command run  Edit  After a response from user2687375 when installing  select client only  Once this is done you should be able to initiate SSH from command   Then you can create an ssh batch script such as  ECHO OFF CLS  MENU ECHO  ECHO                          ECHO SSH servers ECHO                          ECHO  ECHO 1 - Web Server 1 ECHO 2 - Web Server 2 ECHO E - EXIT ECHO   SET  P M Type 1 - 2 then press ENTER  IF  M   1 GOTO WEB1 IF  M   2 GOTO WEB2 IF  M   E GOTO EOF  REM ------------------------------ REM SSH Server details REM ------------------------------   WEB1 CLS call ssh user xxx xxx xxx xxx cmd  k   WEB2 CLS call ssh user xxx xxx xxx xxx cmd  k

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