How To Execute Linux commands from Windows

Most of the time, users are having a Windows Machine on their desk or laptop. Normally, we want to perform a full scale data retrieval from our Linux servers in the DC, where we don’t have a trusted Linux server to manage it….the answer to it is use “PLINK” utility.

Plink comes together with the Putty…

A simple example of usage is:

C:\> plink USERNAME@SERVERNAME ‘YOUR-LINUX-COMMAND’

If you have a dozen of servers…then you probably want to write a batch script in Windows to loop through a list of servers and mention the list of commands juz like what i did…..

Here a typical windows batch script:

@echo off

for / f “tokens=*” %%A in (your-server-list.txt) ( C:\path\to\plink.exe user@server -w YOUR-PASSWORD -m linuxcommandscript > YOUR_OUTPUT_FILE.txt)

There you go, i did this for my sar report data collection for root cause analysis and infrastructure load analysis….keying in a password wif every darn login is impractical and yet you dont want to generate a security key for the servers.

2 Responses to “How To Execute Linux commands from Windows”

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1. simon says:

   July 29, 2008 at 10:14 am

   this really help if you manage a lot of linux servers, will try out this tool.

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2. Danny says:

   July 30, 2008 at 1:00 am

   awesome tip dude.

   I also update the title, think you missed out in

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