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hunter
Joined:: 2008-09-10
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Location:: San Jose

automation and scripting

2008-09-10 02:06

I am trying to automate winscp. I am able to verify manually in DOS that the commands work. but as a batch file or from the scheduler I get left at the

active session: [1] mharper@192.168.166.29
winscp>

At the winscp prompt I can manually get my files but not able to automate that part of the process.

Also I am not able to get the log to create.

C:\WinSCP.exe /log /console /wait /open mharper@192.168.166.29 /get test c:\test_bat

As a batch file it seems that the wait is needed to get the login to work but from the scheduler it runs ok with out the wait.

What I am trying to do is get files from a remote server and completely automate the process on an hourly basis. I have tried many variations nothing seems to work.

all my commands work from the Command line but fail after logging into the server.

Mark :( [/b]

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martin◆ Site Admin
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Location:: Prague, Czechia

Re: automation and scripting

2008-09-10

hunter wrote:

C:\WinSCP.exe /log /console /wait /open mharper@192.168.166.29 /get test c:\test_bat

You probably meant to do:

c:\winscp.exe /log=c:\winscp.log /console /command "open mharper@192.168.166.29" "get test c:\test_bat"

There is no "wait" command in WinSCP. Where did you find that?

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Guest

Re: automation and scripting

2008-09-10 16:17

martin wrote:
hunter wrote:

C:\WinSCP.exe /log /console /wait /open mharper@192.168.166.29 /get test c:\test_bat
You probably meant to do:
c:\winscp.exe /log=c:\winscp.log /console /command "open mharper@192.168.166.29" "get test c:\test_bat"
There is no "wait" command in WinSCP. Where did you find that?

what do the quotes do? the wait is a dos command that seemed the only way for the actual batch file to get logged into the session.
I will apply those changes and see what happens.

Mark :D

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Re: automation and scripting

2008-09-10 16:44

Anonymous wrote:
martin wrote:
hunter wrote:

C:\WinSCP.exe /log /console /wait /open mharper@192.168.166.29 /get test c:\test_bat
You probably meant to do:
c:\winscp.exe /log=c:\winscp.log /console /command "open mharper@192.168.166.29" "get test c:\test_bat"
There is no "wait" command in WinSCP. Where did you find that?
what do the quotes do? the wait is a dos command that seemed the only way for the actual batch file to get logged into the session.
I will apply those changes and see what happens.

Mark :D

OK its almost there. I ran the scheduler with the changed paramters but it is trying to pull binaries. and not file is transfered. I am only moving text files is there an adjustment I can use to get that to happen?

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hunter
Joined:: 2008-09-10
Posts:: 5
Location:: San Jose

Re: automation and scripting

2008-09-10 16:53

martin wrote:
hunter wrote:

C:\WinSCP.exe /log /console /wait /open mharper@192.168.166.29 /get test c:\test_bat
You probably meant to do:
c:\winscp.exe /log=c:\winscp.log /console /command "open mharper@192.168.166.29" "get test c:\test_bat"
There is no "wait" command in WinSCP. Where did you find that?

actually it all works the file test_bat was a typo on my part and it created a new folder with that name. I added an exit to the scheduler and all is well. I will be trying it on a batch file next and it looks good.

The one thing that I would like to understand is the quotes and what do they do?

Thanks so much for your help.

Mark 8)

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JRB_BMB
Joined:: 2008-07-01
Posts:: 24
Location:: Midlands, UK

2008-09-11 09:47

The quotes encapsulate the command into a single string that the program can use and doesn't count them all as little chunks.
So it sees;
open mharper@192.168.166.29
get test c:\test_bat

and not;
open
mharper@192.168.166.29
get
test
c:\test_bat

Hope that makes sense.

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