How to fetch data from putty window using VBScript

Question

I know this might be a silly question. I want to login to putty and read the lines in putty window. The following code gets stuck at the readline.

Dim UserName
Dim Passwrd

UserName = InputBox("Please Enter Your UserID:")
Passwrd  = InputBox("Please Enter Your Password:")

Set shell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
pcmd = "C:\Putty\putty.exe -ssh"&" "&UserName & "@10.x.xx.x -pw" &" "&Passwrd 

Set exec = shell.Exec(pcmd)
Set pout = exec.StdOut
Dim strFromPutty 
Do
    strFromPutty = pout.ReadLine
    print strFromPutty
Loop While Not pout.AtEndOfStream

Use `plink` rather than `putty` if you want to process output from the remote host. — Ansgar Wiechers, Jun 07 '18 at 16:10

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 07 '18 at 16:09

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you may not be able to do that. The session might be a different process started by putty.

I propose to redirect it to a file and read it from there: Full answer here: Save PuTTY ouput to file from command-line

answered Jun 07 '18 at 16:09

Bela Tamas Jozsa

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How to fetch data from putty window using VBScript

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