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jchornsey
Joined:: 2016-01-22
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Location:: Colorado, USA

Problems Running Script

2016-01-22 21:20

I'm trying to execute WinSCP with a script from within PowerShell. I've created the PS script so that it creates the WinSCP script file programmatically based on yesterday's date.

The script file is created successfully and when I execute those steps from within "winscp.exe /console" or "winscp.com", each of the steps work perfectly.

However, when I try to execute from a command line with the "/script" switch, either nothing appears to happen, or I get an error.

Nothing is generated with the "/log" switch.

c:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP>winscp.exe /console /script="I:\scripts\2016-01-21.txt" /log="I:\log.txt"

c:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP>winscp.com /console /script="I:\scripts\2016-01-21.txt" /log="I:\log.txt"
No mapping for the Unicode character exists in the target multi-byte code page

c:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP>winscp.com /script="I:\scripts\2016-01-21.txt" /log="I:\log.txt"
No mapping for the Unicode character exists in the target multi-byte code page

c:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP>winscp /script="I:\scripts\2016-01-21.txt" /log="I:\log.txt"
No mapping for the Unicode character exists in the target multi-byte code page

c:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP>winscp.exe /script="I:\scripts\2016-01-21.txt" /log="I:\log.txt"

c:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP>winscp /script=I:\scripts\2016-01-21.txt /log=I:\log.txt
No mapping for the Unicode character exists in the target multi-byte code page

Any ideas?

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martin◆ Site Admin
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Re: Problems Running Script

2016-01-25

What happens when you run the same commands in Windows command-line (cmd.exe)?

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jchornsey
Joined:: 2016-01-22
Posts:: 4
Location:: Colorado, USA

2016-01-25 16:43

The "code" section is from the command prompt.

If I run the script command from within 'winscp.exe /console' or 'winscp.com', each of the commands in the script run fine.

When I try to execute with the '/script' switch, nothing happens. Or, I get the unicode mapping error.

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martin◆ Site Admin

2016-01-28

I've never seen that "Unicode" error before.

What happens when you use winscp.exe /console /script=...? Does console window popup?

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jchornsey
Joined:: 2016-01-22
Posts:: 4
Location:: Colorado, USA

2016-01-28 17:26

martin wrote:

What happens when you use winscp.exe /console /script=...? Does console window popup?

It does, but it disappears so quickly, I can't see if it actually did anything.

And, with the /log switch, nothing is logged.

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martin◆ Site Admin
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Location:: Prague, Czechia

2016-01-31

Are you sure you have a write access to that I: drive? Could you try to log to a local drive instead (like %TEMP%)?

What happens when you use winscp.com from Start > Run instead of a cmd.exe console/command-line?

What happens when you use winscp.com from console/command-line and redirect its output to a local file?

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jchornsey

2016-02-04 18:21

Thanks for your comments and suggestions. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get past the error. So, I just wrote the script to use the built-in Microsoft FTP client.

Thanks, though!

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kkas Guest

Problems Running Script

2016-02-08 15:11

I'm experiencing same behaviour.
It worked once, after making one line change in script -txt file, got code page mapping error.
put -nopermissions -filemask="*>=1D" *
Used ver 5.7.6. and 5.8.1b
Works ok with winscp.exe /console /script=

C:\Temp>winscp.com /script=C:\temp\upload_script.txt /log=C:\temp\winscp.log /loglevel=0
No mapping for the Unicode character exists in the target multi-byte code page

C:\Temp>"C:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP\start_script.bat"

C:\Temp>winscp.com /script="C:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP\upload_script.txt" /log="C:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP\winscp.log" /loglevel=0
No mapping for the Unicode character exists in the target multi-byte code page

BR,

Kimmo

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martin◆ Site Admin

Re: Problems Running Script

2016-02-10

Can you attach the script file?

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Cassu Guest

Script

2016-02-22 10:12

Here you go, had to remove actual address and key.
All commands are working perfectly with CLI. Starting this with .bat and task scheduler bugs..

open scp://xxxx@1.2.3.4 / -hostkey="ssh-rsa 2048 key" -privatekey="C:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP\hostname_private_ssh_key_wo_pass" -rawsettings AgentFwd=1
# Change local directory
lcd z:\
# Force ascii mode transfer
option transfer ascii
# command
pwd
# command
ls
# put 24h modifioidut -nopermissions
put -nopermissions -filemask="*>=1D" *
pwd
ls
exit

BR,

Kimmo

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martin◆ Site Admin

Re: Script

2016-02-22

The script looks good. Though I really mean, if you can attach it as a file?

What was the one line change you did?

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MarcoFR73 Guest

I found the solution

2016-09-13 20:23

Hi all.

I had same problem.
The file script was wrote under Windows, but the server witch I was wanting to access is an Unix server.
Finally, I rewrote the script under Unix, with vi.

And that's fine.

ps : sorry for my bad english...

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