Question

I am developing a TIBCO application and need to be able to run a scp command from an external command resource.

Anyway the issue boils down to being able to log in to bash.exe then run my scp command in the same line.

it works when I run (from cmd.exe)

c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login

(I enter bash)

Then I can run my scp statement just fine

scp account@server:~mysourcedirectory/targetfilename* /cygdrive/c/targetfolder

I want to do these two things in the same line but it doesnt work, aka

 c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c scp account@server:~mysourcedirectory/targetfilename* /cygdrive/c/targetfolder

will fail. What am I doing wrong and how can i run this command in one go?

Thanks

Answer 1

You have to quote the command.

c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c "scp account@server:~mysourcedirectory/targetfilename* /cygdrive/c/targetfolder"

Tested using cmd in wine in gnu/linux. Single quotes did not work, I don’t know all the quoting rules for cmd. But the above did work.