Paste multiple commands to Putty - process serially? - putty

Question

I have about 3000 individual commands that I need to execute on a system via Putty. I am doing this by copying ~100 of the commands and pasting them into a putty SSH session. It works, however the issue is that Putty does not process them serially and the output gets garbled.
Is there a way to make Putty process each command, wait for a return and then process the next? The Windows command prompt does this and I'm thinking there is a way to do so with Putty.
Yes, I know I could put this in a bash script, but due to circumstance outside my control, this has to be done using SSH and in a manner that can be monitored as we go and logged.

Answer 1

I do this all the time. Put your commands in a ( ) block, which will run it as a subshell, perfectly everything within serially. I'm running Windows PuTTY and connecting to Linux and AIX servers. Try it.
(
Command1
Command2
Command3
)
In practice, I might have a huge load of many 100s of statements I want to run, in Notepad++ or whatever. So I copy them to clipboard, and then in PuTTY:
(
paste in your wad here
)
EDIT: If you want to log the output from each of your statements individually, you might do something like this:
(
Command1 > /home/jon/command1output.txt
Command2 > /home/jon/command2output.txt
Command3 > /home/jon/command3output.txt
)
or if you just want one big stream of output, you could interleave separators for easier reading later:
(
echo "~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"
echo "[`date`] Now running Command1 ..."
Command1
echo "~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"
echo "[`date`] Now running Command2 ..."
Command2
echo "~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"
echo "[`date`] Now running Command3 ..."
Command3
)
EDIT2: Another variation using an inline function. All paste-able into PuTTY, with perfect serial running, logging as command1:output1,command2:output2,... , and capable of driving SQL*Plus.
(
function geniusMagic() {
echo " "
echo "~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"
date
echo "RUNNING COMMAND:"
echo " "
echo "$*"
echo " "
echo "OUTPUT:"
echo " "
sh -c "$*"
}
geniusMagic df -m /home
geniusMagic 'printf $RANDOM | sed "s/0//g"'
geniusMagic 'echo "select count(*)
FROM all_tables;
" | sqlplus -s scott/tiger'
)
Sample output:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wed Jun 25 17:41:19 EDT 2014
RUNNING COMMAND:
df -m /home
OUTPUT:
Filesystem MB blocks Free %Used Iused %Iused Mounted on
/dev/hd1 1024.00 508.49 51% 3164 3% /home
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wed Jun 25 17:41:19 EDT 2014
RUNNING COMMAND:
printf $RANDOM | sed "s/0//g"
OUTPUT:
2767
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wed Jun 25 17:41:19 EDT 2014
RUNNING COMMAND:
echo "select count(*)
FROM all_tables;
" | sqlplus -s scott/tiger
OUTPUT:
COUNT(*)
----------
48

Answer 2

Just an idea here, Putty comes with a command-line tool called Plink. You could write a script on your windows machine that creates a connection to the remote server with Plink, then parses your list of commands one at a time and sends them.
This should look exactly the same to the remote server (which I assume is what's doing the logging), while letting you have a bit more control than copy-pasting blocks of commands.

Answer 3

I'm not sure why you could not use Plink, but you could make a batch file with Notepad++.
plink <hostname> -l <login_name> -pw <password> <command 1>
plink <hostname> -l <login_name> -pw <password> <command 2>
plink <hostname> -l <login_name> -pw <password> <command 3>
...
plink <hostname> -l <login_name> -pw <password> <command 3000>
Run the batch file:
filename.bat > log.txt 2>&1
Notepad++: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
Plink: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
Batch files: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/batchfiles.php
Display & Redirect Output: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/battech_redirection.php

Answer 4

Maybe the answer you are looking for is here.
Here a copy of the answer I think may be interesting for you :
// Wait for backup setting prompt
Repeat Until %D1% = 1
Activate Window: "DAYMISYS1.qdx.com - PuTTY"
Mouse Move Window 12, 11 <------- Moves mouse to upper left corner to activate menu options
Mouse Right Button Click
Delay 0.1 Seconds
Text Type: o <------- Activates Copy All to Clipboard command
Delay 0.2 Seconds
If Clipboard Contains "or select a number to change a setting:" <------- Look for text of prompt that I am waiting for
Repeat Exit <------- If found, exit loop and continue macro
End If
Delay 1 Seconds <------- If prompt is not found, continue loop
Repeat End

Answer 5

In the putty I have, I just paste into it and it works.
Open notepad
Type out your list of commands
Highlight notepad
ctr + c (or right click, copy)
click on your putty window
right-click once, into where you type your commands
You should see all of the commands inserted into your entry box
hit enter
Note: I used this to enter multiple lines into cin prompts from C++ program compiled on linux. I don't know if it will work directly into the terminal.