Send commands to be executed in the remote host using putty

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I have to run a bunch of commands for a process. I am able to call and login to Putty using the command below and want to be able to execute tar and other things.

I call putty using the following

"C:\Users\PSingh69\Desktop\putty.exe -ssh"&" "&UserName & "@10.177.104.109 -pw" &" "&Passwrd

Commands to send to the remote host using Putty:

cd /psingh69/home/                                                    
tar -cvf /psingh69/home/inbox/myfile.tar ./home/inputfiles/myfile.txt 
tar -tvf /psingh69/home/inbox/myfile.tar                              
cd /psingh69/home/destfolder/inbox/                                   
chmod 777 /psingh69/home/destfolder/inbox/myfile.tar

I am able to login to Putty using above command, but I am not sure of how to make the remote host run the above lines.

Whatever you are hoping to accomplish chmod 777 is wrong and dangerous. You should switch back to sane permissions ASAP (probably 755 for your particular user case). If you did this on a production system, at a minimum check whether an intruder could have abused this security flaw; in the worst case, reinstall the system from scratch from known-good backups. — tripleee
– tripleee, Commented Aug 5, 2020 at 10:30
This question already exist in SU superuser.com/q/587629/235569 — Braiam
– Braiam, Commented Aug 5, 2020 at 11:43

Bond · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-17 12:26:06Z

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Most versions of Putty allow you to specify a "remote command file" using the -m command-line switch. Add your commands to a text file and pass it as a parameter to your putty.exe command:

> putty.exe ... -m "c:\mycommands.sh"

Note that you'll need to escape your quotes (by doubling them) when used in a VBScript string literal:

pcmd = "putty.exe -m ""c:\mycommands.sh"""

answered Aug 17, 2015 at 12:26

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Praveenks Over a year ago

The tar file name is not fixed, I have to take that one from user. Isn't there a way to put these commands in my vbs script itself rather than calling another script ?

Bond Over a year ago

You could create the command file using VBScript (CreateTextFile()) so that you can write dynamic values to it. Then, pass it to Putty as shown above.

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