-\versionid $Id: plink.but,v 1.22 2004/04/24 12:25:08 jacob Exp $
+\define{versionidplink} \versionid $Id$
\C{plink} Using the command-line connection tool Plink
\c Usage: plink [options] [user@]host [command]
\c ("host" can also be a PuTTY saved session name)
\c Options:
-\c -V show version information
+\c -V print version information and exit
+\c -pgpfp print PGP key fingerprints and exit
\c -v show verbose messages
\c -load sessname Load settings from saved session
\c -ssh -telnet -rlogin -raw
-\c force use of a particular protocol (default SSH)
+\c force use of a particular protocol
\c -P port connect to specified port
\c -l user connect with specified username
-\c -m file read remote command(s) from file
\c -batch disable all interactive prompts
\c The following options only apply to SSH connections:
\c -pw passw login with specified password
\c -A -a enable / disable agent forwarding
\c -t -T enable / disable pty allocation
\c -1 -2 force use of particular protocol version
+\c -4 -6 force use of IPv4 or IPv6
\c -C enable compression
\c -i key private key file for authentication
+\c -m file read remote command(s) from file
\c -s remote command is an SSH subsystem (SSH-2 only)
+\c -N don't start a shell/command (SSH-2 only)
Once this works, you are ready to use Plink.
\c Last login: Thu Dec 6 19:25:33 2001 from :0.0
\c fred@flunky:~$
+(You can also use the \c{-load} command-line option to load a saved
+session; see \k{using-cmdline-load}. If you use \c{-load}, the saved
+session exists, and it specifies a hostname, you cannot also specify a
+\c{host} or \c{user@host} argument - it will be treated as part of the
+remote command.)
+
\S{plink-usage-batch} Using Plink for automated connections
More typically Plink is used with the SSH protocol, to enable you to
Or perhaps you want to fetch all system log lines relating to a
particular web area:
-\c plink mysession grep /~fjbloggs/ /var/log/httpd/access.log > fredlogs
+\c plink mysession grep /~fred/ /var/log/httpd/access.log > fredlog
Any non-interactive command you could usefully run on the server
command line, you can run in a batch file using Plink in this way.