This section describes the basics of how to use Plink for interactive logins and for automated processes.
Once you've got a console window to type into, you can just type plink on its own to bring up a usage message. This tells you the version of Plink you're using, and gives you a brief summary of how to use Plink:
C:\>plink
Plink: command-line connection utility
Release 0.82
Usage: plink [options] [user@]host [command]
("host" can also be a PuTTY saved session name)
Options:
-V print version information and exit
-pgpfp print PGP key fingerprints and exit
-v show verbose messages
-load sessname Load settings from saved session
-ssh -telnet -rlogin -raw -serial
force use of a particular protocol
-ssh-connection
force use of the bare ssh-connection protocol
-P port connect to specified port
-l user connect with specified username
-batch disable all interactive prompts
-proxycmd command
use 'command' as local proxy
-sercfg configuration-string (e.g. 19200,8,n,1,X)
Specify the serial configuration (serial only)
The following options only apply to SSH connections:
-pwfile file login with password read from specified file
-D [listen-IP:]listen-port
Dynamic SOCKS-based port forwarding
-L [listen-IP:]listen-port:host:port
Forward local port to remote address
-R [listen-IP:]listen-port:host:port
Forward remote port to local address
-X -x enable / disable X11 forwarding
-A -a enable / disable agent forwarding
-t -T enable / disable pty allocation
-1 -2 force use of particular SSH protocol version
-4 -6 force use of IPv4 or IPv6
-C enable compression
-i key private key file for user authentication
-noagent disable use of Pageant
-agent enable use of Pageant
-no-trivial-auth
disconnect if SSH authentication succeeds trivially
-noshare disable use of connection sharing
-share enable use of connection sharing
-hostkey keyid
manually specify a host key (may be repeated)
-sanitise-stderr, -sanitise-stdout, -no-sanitise-stderr, -no-sanitise-stdout
do/don't strip control chars from standard output/error
-no-antispoof omit anti-spoofing prompt after authentication
-m file read remote command(s) from file
-s remote command is an SSH subsystem (SSH-2 only)
-N don't start a shell/command (SSH-2 only)
-nc host:port
open tunnel in place of session (SSH-2 only)
-sshlog file
-sshrawlog file
log protocol details to a file
-logoverwrite
-logappend
control what happens when a log file already exists
-shareexists
test whether a connection-sharing upstream exists
Once this works, you are ready to use Plink.
-batch: disable all interactive prompts-s: remote command is SSH subsystem-share: Test and try to share an existing connection.-shareexists: test for connection-sharing upstream-sanitise-stream: control output sanitisation