Comments on: Putty, the Command Line and NO Clicky Clicky

By: Etherealmind

Etherealmind — Wed, 23 May 2012 18:57:00 +0000

Also, the post was published in Oct 2009 and WinXP was state of the art then. Still, no corporate company has given me a desktop with Win7 yet so it hasn’t been a problem.

By: Ian Triggs

Ian Triggs — Tue, 22 May 2012 03:39:00 +0000

I will agree here. I have to connect to a possible couple of hundred devices across the fleet. Putty will not do and neither will the command line. PuttyCM is the best thing since sliced bread.

Also a comment to Greg, that OS in your screenshots is almost 12 years old. I know you’re not a Windows guy but Windows 7 is a whole lot more productive than XP. You could’ve just pressed the start menu key on your keyboard once (or clicked it), typed in the word ‘putty’ and pressed enter and it would’ve launched. Even if it wasn’t even installed and the exe was lying around somewhere on the HDD, and without any environment variables.

By: Rohit

Rohit — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:26:00 +0000

You can also call a remote putty function from inside the local machine. Just give the “C:…putty.exe -ssh IP-Address -p Port-Number -l Login-Id -pw Password”

By: Vinod Balakrishnan

Vinod Balakrishnan — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:08:00 +0000

Nice Article.

I am trying to run a script in unix. I am able to connect to unix but the shell script is not getting executed i am sending it through sendln

By: Withsnaveen

Withsnaveen — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:10:00 +0000

Nice article

I have tried -m like START putty -ssh user@abc.com -pw password -m c:a.txt but it is not working . It is showing “TERM environment variable not set”

By: Withsnaveen

Withsnaveen — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:04:00 +0000

I am starting the putty in windows command prompt using following command

START putty -ssh user@abc.com -pw password

I want following things additionally
1. open a specific location while loading (on load i want my log location to be opened – /prod/user1/logs)
2. Execute a particular command (a grep command)
3. open Putty window with lines of scrollback 8000 (when log lines high – need to increase buffer size)

Please help me to do the above. That will be very helpful to me

By: Phaniraj

Phaniraj — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:55:00 +0000

Write a batch file with the command putty -pw @. Add the parent directory path of batch file to the Path Environment variable. Then, you should be able to login to the Unix machine by typing the batch file name from run window.

By: Daniel Challen

Daniel Challen — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:52:00 +0000

I’m sure you know this, but many of your audience might not: it is not “DOS box”. Granted the syntax is largely the same, and the commands available are a super set of those found in the old DOS “command.com”, but the Windows Command Prompt (cmd.exe) is a 32 bit command-line interpreter and most certainly not DOS.

By: Viettienvu

Viettienvu — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:23:00 +0000

Is there any way to run Putty behind not showing up on the screen?

By: Edward_ezy

Edward_ezy — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:22:00 +0000

helpfull article!!!

Thanks !!!

By: Viettienvu

Viettienvu — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:38:00 +0000

Can I build a batch file (*.bat) to run Putty automatically? Please help.

By: Matthew Wilcoxson

Matthew Wilcoxson — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:56:28 +0000

One more shortcut. You can add /C or /K to cmd and it will instantly do the command when the window opens:

e.g. cmd /Kipconfig or cmd /Cputty -load comp

K keeps the window open.
C closes the window after running.

By: Matthew Wilcoxson

Matthew Wilcoxson — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:46:16 +0000

Actually, pressing the tab key when putty is highlighted lets you enter the command line parameters.

By: Accent

Accent — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:35:32 +0000

Is there a flag that can be used to save the data received from the remote host in a log?

Thanks

By: IConrad

IConrad — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:38:03 +0000

Just an FYI — Launchy comes in “Portable” mode, which bypasses installation requirements/problems rather neatly. Just keep a flash drive with you and you don’t even have to store the files on company resources. Even if it didn’t, you could *make* it portable with 7-zip or Universal Extractor. Just extract the installer’s contents into a separate folder, do a little clean-up to remove any pointers outside of the folder, and hey-presto: portable app is portable.

By: Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:45:55 +0000

Brian

I’m also a believer n the keyboard and I’m using LaunchBar as well. Still haven’t mastered it with all it options and hooks.

People who want something similar should look at Alfred which is free.

greg

By: Brian Long

Brian Long — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:36:10 +0000

I love driving from the keyboard.

I use Bayden’s Slickrun on Windows: http://www.fiddlertool.com/SlickRun/

I use LaunchBar on Mac OS X: http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html

SlickRun is FREE… LaunchBar was $10, if I remember correctly. Well worth the cost for time savings of driving everything from the keyboard.

- Brian -

By: Veovis Muad'dib

Veovis Muad'dib — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:52:19 +0000

@ Joe Smith:

Or you could use Visor with Terminal.app, set terminal to launch at startup, assign ^ + ` to bring down the terminal, and alias all of your ssh sessions. Then you press ^ + `, type the name of your server, press enter, and you’re done.

Or you could use Quicksilver to assign scripts to ssh into your servers, and launch those scripts through Quicksilver.

Both remove the mouse entirely, as this article was attempting.

When on Windows you could simply use Cygwin, which allows you to use OpenSSH client and daemon, and gives you a bash environment to boot.

You could also use AutoHotKey to minimize typing even further, using either this article’s method or Cygwin.

When on Linux there are too many options to name. (Though I wish I liked any of the Visor alternatives on Linux.)

You could switch to another virtual terminal and set up aliases. You could use your DE’s launch mechanism. You could use AwesomeWM and barely have to use the mouse to do anything…

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:25:46 +0000

Great article……..sometimes I think I’m the only one who loves the command line. I’ve actually had managers poke fun at me because of my hardcore stance. I’m looking for a way around the lack of groups in PuTTY and this article helps. Keep’em comin…

By: Raj

Raj — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 19:37:10 +0000

Hi All,

I am very new to putty, every day i need to open 30+ putty sessions and need to check the running backups on the servers, i am working on a batch file to open and auto login to the putty and execute the necessary commands, i succeded to launch multiple sessions at given intervals with auto login, i am not able to change the title of the putty sessions and execute the necessary commands within the putty sessions can some one help me on this plz

thanks in advance

- Tadi

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:28:14 +0000

Thank you! Very helpful in understanding how to automate things in my computing life!

Pat

By: srpter

srpter — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:44:07 +0000

You missed a lot of good flags

-pw myPassword
logging in right from the cmd

putty userName@gunther -pw myPass

or running a file of commands

-m c:pathtofileoflinuxcommands.txt

By: argh

argh — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:37:18 +0000

Man, I wish I would have realized earlier, this is kind of just a silly way of running putty.
I expected to be able to Run putty *inside* console2 or cmd prompt.

not all is lost however, as I did go get puTTy finally, and I happened to read the part about plink.

plink argh@argh.org

no one wants to use puTTy’s ugly interface do they? No WAY!!
so I don’t look like so much of a dick, to the people seeing this in the future. oh yeah “Hi” <3
I am going to tell you how to do it.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/
http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/plink.exe

get a free shell account:
http://shells.red-pill.eu/

add, plink to path
path C:where-ever-you-put-plink
plink -P 30 shellmix.com

then you can make an account
and log into it again on 22 by doing:

plink yourcrazyusername@shellmix.com

or maybe you have ssh enabled on your trusty dd-wrt:
plink 192.168.1.1

By: Scott Pilkinton

Scott Pilkinton — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:02:01 +0000

I’m not sure about the full blown PuTTY client, but it’s little brother Plink can certainly do it. Here is an article that describes exactly how to do just that:

http://www.xpresslearn.com/cisco/general/automate-cisco-commands-from-windows

By: Jay Paul

Jay Paul — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:33:55 +0000

Can PuTTY command line be used with VBScript to completely automate daily download of files?