How to run a PowerShell script from Cygwin SSH session?

Question

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?

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered May 05 '11 at 12:01

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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.

answered May 05 '11 at 12:01

ak2

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score 13 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 29 '21 at 15:26

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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

edited Apr 29 '21 at 15:26

AJM

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answered Mar 03 '14 at 04:23

Sergey

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score 9 · Answer 3 · answered May 05 '11 at 17:15

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.

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 25 '13 at 16:13

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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.

answered Sep 25 '13 at 16:13

PatrickWalker

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score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 24 '14 at 14:34

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.

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 19 '20 at 15:06

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.

How to run a PowerShell script from Cygwin SSH session?

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