Putty keeps my script from Completeing

[OhioYJ]

I guess this sort of fits in the programming section? So I don't have issues on my Linux machines, however I have a couple PCs in the house that have Windows on them, need this script / batch file to run, I'm having an issue with this line:

 

putty.exe -ssh root@192.168.1.4 -pw mypassword -m "C:\shutdown.txt"

 

Contents of shutdown.txt:

shutdown -p +60

 

So that line should connect to the NAS shut it down, and then continue on with what it was doing. However nothing continues on until putty is closed (manually by hitting the "X" in the corner?).  My NAS does shutdown so that part works, however everything else stops at that point until. I'm sure I'm missing something basic right?

[Slayerking92]

If this is windows, rename the .txt file to .cmd

 

[OhioYJ]

22 minutes ago, Slayerking92 said:

If this is windows, rename the .txt file to .cmd

 

It is, these lines are all in a .bat file (well not the .txt file obviously). My understanding was putty needs the commands it is supposed to be placed in a file. Changing the ending to a .cmd instead of .txt makes putty not run anything. It opens, but doesn't run the shutdown command.

[elpiop]

You can use "start" to launch putty.exe in a new command prompt window.

 

start putty.exe -ssh root@192.168.1.4 -pw mypassword -m "C:\shutdown.txt"

 

[OhioYJ]

11 minutes ago, elpiop said:

You can use "start" to launch putty.exe in a new command prompt window.

 

start putty.exe -ssh root@192.168.1.4 -pw mypassword -m "C:\shutdown.txt"

 

 

This doesn't close the putty window when complete, however it solves the problem. It lets the script continue on and shutdown the computer when complete, which is the important part. Thank you.

[elpiop]

13 minutes ago, OhioYJ said:

 

This doesn't close the putty window when complete, however it solves the problem. It lets the script continue on and shutdown the computer when complete, which is the important part. Thank you.

PuTTY can not be run in command line mode only, as far as I am aware. However, you can use "plink" which comes packaged with PuTTY. If you have the directory added to your path, you should just be able to run plink.exe to achieve the result you're looking for.