Cygwin SSH to read subfolders and files

misurex2 · 04-21-2020, 07:13 PM

Hello,
From Centos7 I'm connecting to Windows 10, through SSH, to read and then save to a file (on Linux) all the content of a certain directory, meaning sub-directories and their files.

I created a bash file like this:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

rm -f /media/my_file.txt
HOST="MY-PC"

ssh user@$HOST "dir H:/Documents /s /a /b">> /media/my_file.txt

The problem is that cygwin give those errors:
dir: cannot access '/a': No such file or directory
dir: cannot access '/s': No such file or directory
dir: cannot access '/b': No such file or directory

NOTE: I already can read without problems the hardware information of the mentioned pc, so it's not a SSH problem.
I tried all sort of variants(like putting the command in a variable, commenting the slash, adding simple quotes, replace the slashes by hyphens), but nothing worked. Please guide me through this.

Thank you.

pan64 · 04-22-2020, 05:02 AM

So you have an ssh server running on your Windows. Which one? (the one which was delivered with cygwin, or something else?)

misurex2 · 04-22-2020, 04:43 PM

Yes, the openssh package that come with the cygwin installation.
Thank you.

dc.901 · 04-22-2020, 04:57 PM

If this is all you are doing, then it could have been done very easily from Windows side using Putty tools (plink command).
Again, assuming that is all you are doing.
Personally, not a big fan of running SSH server on Windows.

scasey · 04-22-2020, 05:10 PM

...or WinSCP, which runs on Windows over the PuTTY engine. Nice graphical sftp file transfer program. Free.

misurex · 04-22-2020, 05:39 PM

Thanks for your responses, but I figure it out. Here is the script that allows me from Centos 7 to list all sub-directories with their files on Windows 10 - and then create a text file.

Quote:

#!/bin/sh

rm -f /media/my_file.txt
HOST="MY-PC"

ssh user@$HOST "cd /cygdrive/H/Documents; du -ah" >> /media/my_file.txt

This bash file will then be automatically executed by cron each day, replacing the text file with a new one. No manual hassle with Putty, WinSCP, etc. Btw, my question was on Cygwin!!

pan64 · 04-22-2020, 11:53 PM

yes, that ssh server does not understand the syntax of dos command prompt, but the linux bash shell.
please mark the thread solved if your problem is solved.