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Asked: 2026-05-15T08:41:26+00:00

Is it newline? prompt? What exactly? Trying to run powershell over plink and the

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Is it newline? prompt? What exactly?

Trying to run powershell over plink and the command executes but plink doesn’t recognise its finished and the session hangs. Most curiously though, the command executes successfully when sent through the shell (via Putty). However, when sent via plink, the same command hangs…

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ok, well I’m still not quite sure what the problem is, but I’ve found a workaround via the TeamCity forums.

    Basically you want to echo some abitrary string and pipe that output into your powershell executable, like thus:

    echo 'executing powershell...' | C:\windows\system32\windowspowershell \v1.0\powershell.exe  exit 1

    So then your full plink command becomes:

    plink.exe user@someIp -i key.ppk -P 22 -batch -v "echo 'executing powershell...' | C:\windows\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe exit 1"

    Nb. Plink will still pass through return codes and console output using this method.

    Link to TeamCity forum:

    http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/TW-6021

    Hope this helps

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