Calling unix shell script remotely from C#

Question

In my current project, i need to call a Unix shell script from the C# application. I also need to get the response back whether the script has been execute successfully or any error has occurred.

The C# program is running on a Windows machine. I need to connect to a Unix machine and execute the script.

Can anyone let me know how this can be done using C#?

Answer 1

Will this solve your problem?

sharpSsh - A Secure Shell (SSH) library for .NET

Update

Refer to the developer's site for SharpSSH for more information on how to use the tool.

Update 2

• change link of developer site to archived link.

Answer 2

A straight forward way of preforming this using System.Diagnostics.Process

// Start the child process.
 Process p = new Process();
 // Redirect the error stream of the child process.
 p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
 p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardError = true;
 p.StartInfo.FileName = "Write500Lines.exe";
 p.Start();
 // Do not wait for the child process to exit before
 // reading to the end of its redirected error stream.
 // p.WaitForExit();
 // Read the error stream first and then wait.
 string error = p.StandardError.ReadToEnd();
 p.WaitForExit();

Answer 3

Even i had the same problem, i have googled for solution for around 1 month.

Finally, i have decided to use plink.exe (command line version of putty.exe) to connect to unix box and execute a script there.

You have to use plink through c# process, i have tried it and this works amazingly.

But rite now the problem i am facing is when i am running a script from c# process i am unable to pass arguments to that script. Probably it would be rite to say that i do not know how to do that.

Regards -Aakash