BAT script to copy files from Windows to remote Linux systems

Question

Is there anyway to copy files from Windows machine to a remote Linux machine with a DOS command/other command-line tool (by specifying username and password in the command). I normally do this using WinSCP and would like to write a script (BAT) to automate this.

Solitta

WinSCP can be run from scripts. – Fragmentary

Answer 1

You could use the command line version of PuTTY, pscp.exe.

Meingolda

Technically pscp.exe isn't a command line version of PuTTY, only the secure-copy component. plink.exe is the command line companion to PuTTY, though it is designed for remote commands without launching a shell. – Kellikellia

Answer 2

WinSCP scripting command-line to upload a file is like:

winscp.com /command "open sftp://[email protected]/" "put d:\www\index.html" "exit"

See the guide to WinSCP scripting.

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Easier is to use a Generate transfer code function to have WinSCP GUI generate a script (or even a complete batch file) for a transfer.

Gizela

Ty, for update about generate transfer function. This is actually where I planned to start at, and wasn't sure if it exists :) – Ashwell

Answer 3

Download a copy of pscp.exe (the PuTTY scp companion). If you have setup SSH keys on the Linux server, which you can do with PuTTY on Windows, you can setup password-less copy to Linux machines from Windows.

Kellikellia

Answer 4

Install cygwin and you can use scp, ssh etc just like you would on linux. Besides, you can use ordinary bash scripts instead of crappy bat-files.

Roundhouse

Answer 5

If anyone is looking to do this in 2022, Windows 10 now comes with scp. You can do

scp path/localfile.txt remote-user@host:/home/path

or the recursive version for directories

scp -r localfolder remote-user@host:/home/path

Of course with scp you'll run into issues if you have a large number of files. It copies everything as opposed to only changed / new files only.

Then you'll need a tool like rsync, which is available through WSL (windows subsystem linux).

rsync -r localfolder remote-user@host:/home/path

(I personally hesitate to install new tools for a job, hence my desire to stick with what's already available)

Gabor