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Matthew Flaschen
Asked: 2011-12-08 14:52:46 +0800 CST

How can I pass in a FTP username and password to WinSCP?

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I'm scripting WinSCP, and need to dynamically pass in a FTP username and password, depending on which environment I'm using.

However, the docs say, "WinSCP does not support providing the passphase from command line or by other means allowing automation"

Is there another way?

ftp automation winscp

3 Answers

  1. Have you tried using something like ftp://user:[email protected] as the address ?

    You script can then build this uri depending on you environment.

    This example uses sftp but ftp should be similar.

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  2. The following is what worked for me

    created a file called script.text. Following is the content of script.txt

    open ftp://uname:pwd@ftpserver_url

    then from the command prompt executed the following statement

    c:\ "path_to_winscp\WinSCP.exe" /console /script=c:/script.txt
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  3. Use /parameter and %1% and %2% in the script:

    WinSCP.com /console /parameter username password /script=some.script

    In some.script:

    open ftp://%1%:%2%@servername
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