I have a one line bat script run off a XP machine that tar's and compresses some files from a Sol 8 box. It goes something like this (a bit simplified)....

plink -pw <passwd> user@host "tar -cvf - -C / tmp/a_file | compress " > a_file.tar.Z

So this works....and it's worked many times. But now I can't have the password in the script. So I've tried many variations of the command. But once I have the tar.Z on the XP machine, WinRAR complains about the archieve (corrupt or can't read it).

So far I've tried:

plink user@host .....
plink host.....
plink -l user host.......
plink host -l user.....

Any advice or tips would be appreciated

-Yinzer

Can you run the bat file interactively and enter the password as a parameter, substitute the parameter in the script.?

You can also set up authentication keys on the remote unix host, if it is allowed. That suppotts the plink host -l username format without having to enter a password.

I guess I should try huh I had to do that for some Unix scripts the other day. This may be a long and painful experiment hehe.....

Question....

How do you read user input in Windows?


edit: Got it......used SET /p var=some text