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raimiansch
Joined:: 2011-03-22
Posts:: 2

Unknown command 'ÿ_o'

2011-03-22 18:25

Hello together!

I want to automate file transfer with winscp. But I always get the error

Unknown command 'ÿ_o'

I use following command:

.\WinSCP.com /script=scp.txt

The content of scp.txt is:

option batch on
option confirm off
open nabackup@x9149.spar.local.at
bin
put C:\adm\VMbackup\VMware-ESX-aecpitsp01
put C:\adm\VMbackup\VMware-ESX-atsl-dmgr01
put C:\adm\VMbackup\VMware-ESX-atsl-ecpa02
exit

The output is:

C:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP> .\WinSCP.com /script=scp.txt
Unknown command 'ÿ_o'.
winscp>

When I open the winscp console (winscp.com) and try each command per hand, it works very fine.

I use the version

C:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP>WinSCP.com /h
WinSCP, Version 4.3.2 (Build 1201)
Copyright (c) 2000-2011 Martin Prikryl

Can anybody help me please?

Thanks
Rainer

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martin◆ Site Admin
Joined:: 2002-12-10
Posts:: 41,504
Location:: Prague, Czechia

Re: Unknown command 'ÿ_o'

2011-03-23

Make sure the script file is saved using UTF8 encoding.

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raimiansch
Joined:: 2011-03-22
Posts:: 2

Re: Unknown command 'ÿ_o'

2011-03-27 05:55

Thank you for your help.

I used within powershell following code to create the text file.

echo "option batch on" >>scpcmd
echo "option confirm off" >>scpcmd
echo "open nabackup@x9149.spar.local.at" >>scpcmd
..

Now I use set-content instead of >>scpcmd and it works fine.

Thank you
Rainer

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martin◆ Site Admin

Re: Unknown command 'ÿ_o'

2012-03-23

Basic PowerShell example added
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/library#powershell
More examples (and syntax highlighting) coming soon.

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