Automating running command on Linux from Windows u

Question

I have a scenario where I need to run a linux shell command frequently (with different filenames) from windows. I am using PuTTY and WinSCP to do that (requires login name and password). The file is copied to a predefined folder in the linux machine through WinSCP and then the command is run from PuTTY. Is there a way by which I can automate this through a program. Ideally I would like to right click the file from windows and issue the command which would copy the file to remote machine and run the predefined command (in PuTTy) with the filename as argument.

Answer 1

You can create a putty session, and auto load the script on the server, when starting the session:

putty -load "sessionName" 

At remote command, point to the remote script.

Answer 2

You can do both tasks (the upload and the command execution) using WinSCP. Use WinSCP script like:

option batch abort
option confirm off
open your_session
put %1%
call script.sh
exit

Reference for the call command:
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/scriptcommand_call

Reference for the %1% syntax:
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/scripting#syntax

You can then run the script like:

winscp.exe /console /script=script_path\upload.txt /parameter file_to_upload.dat

Actually, you can put a shortcut to the above command to the Windows Explorer's Send To menu, so that you can then just right-click any file and go to the Send To > Upload using WinSCP and Execute Remote Command (=name of the shortcut).

For that, go to the folder %USERPROFILE%\SendTo and create a shortcut with the following target:

winscp_path\winscp.exe /console /script=script_path\upload.txt /parameter %1

See Creating entry in Explorer's "Send To" menu.