Running WinSCP script displays nothing - batch-file

I'm trying to use WinSCP through script to synchronize a local folder with an FTP one.
I created a script a below
open ftp://<user>:<pw>#ftp.myserver.com/initFolder/
synchronize remote -delete C:\Data\backup /initFolder/
exit
And I run it with the command
"C:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP\WinSCP.exe" /log="C:\data\bin\log\WinSCP.log" /ini=nul /script="C:\data\bin\myScript.txt"
However, it appears nothing is happening. The command exists immediately with no message (either error or some processing / confirmation, etc).
Also no log file is created either.
What am I doing wrong?
Please advise


Indeed, with the command-line syntax you are using, WinSCP runs without any GUI.
If you are starting WinSCP from a console window (e.g. from Windows batch file), use winscp.com instead of winscp.exe. winscp.com is a console application. You will see any errors in the console.
Alternatively, you can add /console switch to winscp.exe command-line to make it open its own console window. Though you will rarely want this.

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I am currently attempting to use FileZilla Pro CLI on a Windows machine to connect and upload to a site in that is working in the Site Manager.
The issue is, the command below works perfectly when pasting it directly into the cmd line. However when saving it as a batch file, it simply just gets to the fzcli> prompt and then nothing happens.
The two line breaks are on purposes to override the requirement for a password and it works perfectly when pasted in.
Does anyone know if this is a cmd line issue, or if my commands need to be different to work in batch file mode?
fzcli
connect --site 0testsite01
put C:/inetpub/wwwroot/websites/sftp/files/customer/test-01.txt /test-sftp/testuser01/test/test-01-uploaded.txt
PAUSE

Your batch file executes fzcli in an interactive mode. The fzcli then waits for you to interactively enter the commands. Only after you would exit the fzcli, the batch file would continue. And fail, as it will try to execute connect as a batch file command. The fzcli does not know about the batch file. Nor does the batch file interpreter know about the fzcli commands.
It's a common misconception. You will find plenty of similar questions basically about scripting any tool that has its own commands. For example: sftp, ftp, psftp, winscp.
To provide commands to fzcli, it seems that you need to use --script switch. The fzcli documentation gives this example:
fzcli --mode standalone --script C:\Scripts\script-file

Ignore Error Code 2 PSFTP

We have an desktop application that dynamically generates a command file to pull specific files that have the current date in the name. So in the end we have a command file that looks like this:
lcd e:\localpath
mget Filename0111.dat
mget Filenametwo0111.dat
mget Filenamethree0111.dat
bye
Where 0111 is MMDD. The command file is created via a .bat file that the desktop app executes. The application then connects to the remote server via PSFTP.exe and runs that command file to pull files.
The problem we're running into is we updated the PSFTP.exe to a newer version due to a separate issue that occurred. Now if a file is not available on the remote server it returns an error code 2 which stops the rest of the files from being retrieved. So if the first file in the list doesn't exist then it fails and the rest of the files are not downloaded.
Is there a way to ignore the error code 2 so that the rest of the files get retrieved? I had thought at first to run PSFTP.exe and it's commands through a batch file but that didn't work.
Any ideas?

PSFTP.exe has a command -be that will continue executing the batch if there is an issue.
When running a batch file, this option causes PSFTP to continue processing even if a command fails to complete successfully.
You might want this to happen if you wanted to delete a file and didn't care if it was already not present, for example.

Executing FART.exe (find and replace text) commands on remote server through SSH

I'm executing a batch file on a remote server from our build server (Jenkins) through SSH. The batch file uses fart.exe commands to find and replace text. I have placed the fart.exe in C:\Windows\System32 and I'm invoking it as C:\windows\system32\fart.exe in the batch file.
The command works perfectly fine oin the remote server, but when invoking through SSH I get an error in the Jenkins log as:
'"C:\windows\system32\fart.exe"' is not recognized as internal or external command.
This is the only error I'm getting and the other commands successfully execute in the batch script. Both of the servers are Windows Server 2012 R2.
I tried adding the path to system variable but it didn't work.
This is how the Fart.exe is used in the batch script.
for /R "%BACKUP_SOURCE%" %%G in (%ConfigFile%) do (
"C:\windows\system32\fart.exe" "%%G" %PlaceHolder% %AppPath%
)
Invoking From Jenkins
I don't think the way i invoke the batch script do matter, because it is done trough the Jenkins SSH plugin. The batch script get invoked successfully. The error i get is from when executing the Fart.exe
I tried invoking a different command of an exe located in the same path, and that is successfully invoked. so i guess the issue is isolated to FART.EXE.

Execute windows batch command from Jenkins fails but runs fine in cmd.exe

I am trying to run this command in jenkins after a MSbuild
xcopy "C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\trunk\Projects\results\results\obj\Debug\Package\PackageTmp" "Y:\Extraction_Zone\Jenkins\" /E
Y: is a mapped network drive. This runs fine in cmd.exe but when trying to run it in Jenkins, I am getting the error Invalid drive specification.
Here is the output from jenkins:
Time Elapsed 00:00:04.03
[trunk] $ cmd /c call C:\Windows\TEMP\hudson3389873107474371072.bat
C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\trunk>xcopy "C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\trunk\Projects\results\results\obj\Debug\Package\PackageTmp" "Y:\Extraction_Zone\Jenkins\" /E
Invalid drive specification
0 File(s) copied
C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\trunk>exit 4
Build step 'Execute Windows batch command' marked build as failure
Finished: FAILURE
Any help would be appreciated.

I too had a similar issue once. Try granting the Jenkins service "Logon as This account" right under services.msc and make sure the account you type there is the same as the one you use for running cmd.exe.

These commands based on Java JAR files worked for me:
cmd
net use x: \\
xcopy "dist\" x:\ /Y
And that's it! I spent lot of time figure out this issue and nothing worked until I wrote CMD and NET USE!
Neither I didn't need to change permission on jenkins service nor use runas command.
But I must mention that everyone had read and write access to the network drive.

I had the same issue with my Windows Task running a batch file (I know it is not exactly same) where I tried to copy file to network location i.e. shared drive. I used the UNC path and mapped drive as well but the error was same. For me it was error number 4 - MS DOS error code.
The solution was to use net use command! Hope that it helps.

Easy fix for most things.
Make a batch command with what your trying to run, filename.bat with the command prompt text inside.
Make a normal windows shortcut for the batch command, edit the shortcuts advanced properties and check the "Run as admin" (tricky tricky).
Now run the filename.lnk shortcut from jenkins command line call, this will get you around all the jazz.
:)

The solution of adarshr (i.e., modifying the log on credentials of the service) has worked for me for a part of the problem: in my case, this allowed me to successfully check out a mercurial repository (using ssh protocol), which I could not do when using 'Local System account'.
However, I still have different behavior between running a command-line script or running the same script from a jenkins 'execute shell' script in the build section. In my case, I compile a Python extension. In Jenkins, I cannot import the extension (I don't see any error, but the execution simply stops, so I suspect it crashes).
If I uninstall the service and run the slave agent as a Java Web Start, I do get the same behavoir. It is a temporary fix for me, but it means that when I reboot the windows build machine, I have to manually re-start the Java Web Start application.
So -at least in my case- it is clear that this is a credential problem.
Credentials usage documentation: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Jenkins+CLI

I've solved my issue with the CIFS plugin.

Faced similar issue and found two ways to solve.
Type 1:
Tell Jenkins about mapped drive.
1.Goto -> Manage Jenkins -> Script Console (Groovy Script).
2.Run below command
def mapdrive = "net use Y: \\\\copy_nework_address"
mapdrive.execute();
println "net use".execute().getText()
Type:2
1.Goto -> cmd -> run "net use" to know network address
xcopy "C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\trunk\Projects\results\results\obj\Debug\Package\PackageTmp" "Copy_Network_Address\Extraction_Zone\Jenkins\" /E
Conclusion:- I prefer 2nd types as after every restart i should run Groovy Script.

FTP batch script is not exiting with error status

There is a ftp command in my batch script :
FTP -n -s:D:\scripts\Test\get.ftp
Where get.ftp contains all ftp commands including "mget abc*".
Issue here is when file(s) of names starting with abc* is not available, mget is not failing. Also, if any other ftp command fails also, the script is not exiting with error status 1. i.e. "FTP -n -s:D:\scripts\Test\get.ftp" exiting without issues.
Not able to make the batch script fail when there is no file to pick up.
Need suggestion if someone has faced similar issue.
-Krishna

The mget command works by obtaining a remote folder listing and parsing the list for the wildcard pattern that you provide. As long as the listing can be obtained successfully,
it is not considered an error if your pattern did not match any of the files on the list.
Your batch script can be setup to compare the local folder listing before and after invoking the ftp command to check if a file was downloaded. You can also use a scripted ftp solution like kermit or ftp script to be able to have more control on error reporting.

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