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Asked: 2011-05-06 00:00:22 +0800 CST

How to run a PowerShell script from Cygwin SSH session?

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I have Windows Server 2003 with CopSSH installed on it ( Cygwin + sshd ). I would like to be able to run a PowerShell script via SSH session command and then use its output. Is there such a capability? How to do it?

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6 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Just invoke powershell with the relevant arguments and pipe it to wherever you want it? You need to make sure it's in the PATH of course.

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  2. Barry Kelly is right.

    You need to use my wrapper software that creates a hidden console and runs PowerShell on it.

    My page is here: http://sergeybelous.com/SHELL-TERMINAL.html#proxywinconsole.exe

    Someone already found my wrapper software and created a tutorial here: https://ssh-with-powershell.blogspot.com/2013/07/enable-ssh-with-powershell-and-remove.html

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  3. First thing it is good to add PowerShell's executable path to user's PATH environmental variable. We do it by adding to user's .bashrc file line like:

    export PATH=${PATH}:"/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0"

    Then we can run PowerShell script just typing in our SSH session

    powershell.exe -File "c:\u.ps1"

    Of course now we can pipe it to use it's output.

    I just wonder why I have to press "Enter" two times in my SSH session after typing the command for it to work.

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  4. Try it with no inputformat

    powershell.exe -inputformat none -noprofile echo hello

    Can be useful for not having to deliver a file to the local machine.

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  5. If you need to run powershell inside cygwin/babun, follow https://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=56#c64 . Bascilly, downloard or compile https://github.com/rprichard/winpty, copy it to your $PATH and then run

    console.exe powershell

    This also works with batch scripts that invoke powershell inside.

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  6. Administrator@AAAAA-11111:~ $cd /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0
Administrator@AAAAA-11111:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0 $ cmd /k powershell.exe
Windows PowerShell
Copyright (C) 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0>

    this works for me.

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