I am sending files from Windows XP to a remote Linux Server using pscp.
This works fine using the command line functions but I need to automate the process from an application and am using shellexecute to achieve this.
When the code executes the function returns an integer greater than 32 but nothing is transferred.
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How about this? Keep xmlfile just the filename, so sftptraget will still be loginname@ipaddress:/targe
but give the full name of that file as parameter.
You may also solve the problem by setting the working directory of pscp.Exe via the fifth ShellExecute parameter you now pass "".
Bye, Olaf.
It seems the problem was in the file name that I was attempting send and having corrected this it now works.
Whilst I was expecting a return value of less than 32 should a parameter be incorrect pscp just ignores the whole command string.
I have tested this by entering an incorrect parameter at the command line and it just displays the list of commmand parameters as though one has just typed pscp.
Is there any way of capturing the command window display values when pscp is executing?
pscp sends it's output to stdout. There's an easy and a hard way. The hard way is this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/
the easy way is to pipe pscp's output to a file. Simply add >somefile.txt to the parameters.
Bye, Olaf.
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by: Olaf_DoschkePosted on 2009-06-12 at 14:06:22ID: 24616170
Well, then it's not ShellExcute failing, but you start another exe and only pass "myfile.xml" as a parameter. The pscp.exe will likely not find this file to transfer it.
Bye, Olaf.