(PowerShell) SSH Execute Remote Commands

See more SSH Examples

Shows how to execute a command on an SSH server and retrieve the command output.

Chilkat .NET Downloads Chilkat .NET Assemblies

Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-9.5.0-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

# This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$ssh = New-Object Chilkat.Ssh

$port = 22
$success = $ssh.Connect("the-ssh-server.com",$port)
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($ssh.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# Authenticate using login/password:
$success = $ssh.AuthenticatePw("theSshLogin","theSshPassword")
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($ssh.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# Send some commands and get the output.
$strOutput = $ssh.QuickCommand("df","ansi")
if ($ssh.LastMethodSuccess -ne $true) {
    $($ssh.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$("---- df ----")
$($strOutput)

$strOutput = $ssh.QuickCommand("echo hello world","ansi")
if ($ssh.LastMethodSuccess -ne $true) {
    $($ssh.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$("---- echo hello world ----")
$($strOutput)

$strOutput = $ssh.QuickCommand("date","ansi")
if ($ssh.LastMethodSuccess -ne $true) {
    $($ssh.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$("---- date ----")
$($strOutput)

# --------------
# Sample output:

# 	---- df ----
# 	Filesystem    512-blocks      Used  Available Capacity  iused     ifree %iused  Mounted on
# 	/dev/disk2    2176716032 265736304 1910467728    13% 33281036 238808466   12%   /
# 	devfs                382       382          0   100%      662         0  100%   /dev
# 	map -hosts             0         0          0   100%        0         0  100%   /net
# 	map auto_home          0         0          0   100%        0         0  100%   /home
# 	/dev/disk3s2      374668    374668          0   100%    93665         0  100%   /Volumes/Google Chrome
# 
# 	---- echo hello world ----
# 	hello world
# 
# 	---- date ----
# 	Thu Dec 22 17:19:32 CST 2016