Remotely run script on Unix, get output locally?

I need to run a (Tcl, or whatever) script on a remote Unix machine, from a (local) Windows command shell, and I want the stdout/stderr of the script to show up in the Windows CLI. The exit code would also be useful.

Is this possible using ssh (putty)? Or by any other means?

Thanks!

This is the default for SSH. If you want to redirect output remotely, put the redirect symbol (typically ">") inside the command quotes.

For example:

ssh remote_host "ls > /tmp/file_on_remote_host.txt"

For saving output locally on Windows host,

ssh remote_host "ls" > .\file_on_local_host.txt

To combine stderr remotely and save it and stdout locally,

ssh remote_host "ls 2>&1" > .\combined_output_on_local_host.txt

What I was looking for is putty's side-kick, plink.exe. Unlike putty, which acts like a terminal emulator, plink acts like a normal (non-interactive) CLI program.

Using it, I could do this in cmd.exe and get the remote command output saved locally.

\> plink remote_host "ls -l" > log.txt

Best of all, this works for ssh as well as telnet !

Just for reference purposes, these are the available options:

PuTTY Link: command-line connection utility
Release 0.59
Usage: plink [options] [user@]host [command]
       ("host" can also be a PuTTY saved session name)
Options:
  -V        print version information and exit
  -pgpfp    print PGP key fingerprints and exit
  -v        show verbose messages
  -load sessname  Load settings from saved session
  -ssh -telnet -rlogin -raw
            force use of a particular protocol
  -P port   connect to specified port
  -l user   connect with specified username
  -batch    disable all interactive prompts
The following options only apply to SSH connections:
  -pw passw login with specified password
  -D [listen-IP:]listen-port
            Dynamic SOCKS-based port forwarding
  -L [listen-IP:]listen-port:host:port
            Forward local port to remote address
  -R [listen-IP:]listen-port:host:port
            Forward remote port to local address
  -X -x     enable / disable X11 forwarding
  -A -a     enable / disable agent forwarding
  -t -T     enable / disable pty allocation
  -1 -2     force use of particular protocol version
  -4 -6     force use of IPv4 or IPv6
  -C        enable compression
  -i key    private key file for authentication
  -noagent  disable use of Pageant
  -agent    enable use of Pageant
  -m file   read remote command(s) from file
  -s        remote command is an SSH subsystem (SSH-2 only)
  -N        don't start a shell/command (SSH-2 only)
  -nc host:port
            open tunnel in place of session (SSH-2 only)

Remotely run script on Unix, get output locally?

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