Thank you so much prikryl – URL-encoding the slash and
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@ symbol worked like a treat. Greatly appreciated! :D
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Re: Trying to set username variable in batch script
The
But it won't help you anyway. It makes no difference if you specify the username directly or via environment variable.
Solution is to URL-encode the slash and at sign:
See https://winscp.net/eng/docs/session_url
Edit 2021: Now you can easily use
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/scriptcommand_open#username
set command should be in a wrapping batch file, not in WinSCP script.
But it won't help you anyway. It makes no difference if you specify the username directly or via environment variable.
Solution is to URL-encode the slash and at sign:
open sftp://www.domain.com%2Femail%40address.com:Password@www.domain.com
See https://winscp.net/eng/docs/session_url
Edit 2021: Now you can easily use
-username switch that does not need any encoding:
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/scriptcommand_open#username
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Trying to set username variable in batch script
Hi,
So my server requires the username in the format:
This seems to cause problems when I attempt to put it all on the one line:
So I found another forum post where it is mentioned to use a variable for the username, by adding this line to the script:
and then using
When I try to run this it returns 'unknown command 'set'.'
My batch file is just simple:
and contents of script.txt:
Any help appreciated!
So my server requires the username in the format:
www.domain.com/email@address.com
This seems to cause problems when I attempt to put it all on the one line:
open sftp://www.domain.com/email@address.com:Password@www.domain.com
So I found another forum post where it is mentioned to use a variable for the username, by adding this line to the script:
set /P USERNAME="www.domain.com/email@address.com"and then using
%USERNAME% for the open script:
open sftp://%USERNAME%:Password@www.domain.com
When I try to run this it returns 'unknown command 'set'.'
My batch file is just simple:
WinSCP.exe /console /script=script.txt
and contents of script.txt:
option batch on
option confirm off
set /P USERNAME="www.domain.com/email@address.com"
open sftp://%USERNAME%:Password@www.domain.com
option transfer binary
put test2.txt /
exit
Any help appreciated!