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I want putty to run a single command after login when its start up and then get control of the console.

Let's say every time I need to goto a specific directory to run some command there.
The command I execute will vary time to time but I need to go to that specific directory every time : lets say the directory is a/b/c/

So I need to run a 

cd /a/b/c

command after every time i login.

currently I am using :

C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\putty.exe [myhost] -l [user] -pw [password]

As the Target value In putty.exe shortcut file. Which working fine.

But now I want to execute a 

cd /a/b/c

command after login automatically, Is it possible?

I have tried as suggested Here . But its execute the command and then exit putty. I don't want the putty to exit after the command has been executed.

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  • Assuming the remote system is unix-y and your shell is bash, add the cd command to your ~/.bash_profile
    – glenn jackman
    Commented Oct 21, 2015 at 12:46
  • little complex for me.? can you explain please and where is the ~/.bash_profile ?
    – Saif
    Commented Oct 21, 2015 at 12:48
  • Before that, are my assumptions correct?
    – glenn jackman
    Commented Oct 21, 2015 at 12:57

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You need to write your command in a file first. Then you can use -m option of putty.exe:

putty.exe -ssh [email protected] -P 22 -pw password -m C:\fileWithCommand

It depends on the system's OS which you want to access via SSH whether it is possible to write even a batch of commands in this file.

Above method can execute whole scripts but closes the session when terminated. If you want to have the output, download plink.exe:

plink.exe -ssh [email protected] -P 22 -pw password echo test

This command prints test.

-P 22 is not necessary in the case your port is 22.

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  • yes tried that. That exit putty after execution of that command . any alternative.?
    – Saif
    Commented Oct 21, 2015 at 12:16
  • Thanks for your nice effort. I ran your command from command prompt. yes it does print test. But i don't want just the output. I also want to use the command interface like regular, which means executing some command by my self after that command execute. I am doing it right ? or It is possible vai putty.? or Do i have to combine putty.exe and plink.exe in some way which i dont know.? thanks again.
    – Saif
    Commented Oct 21, 2015 at 12:45
  • if we wanted to send some arguments to the shell script that run inside the putty? @h0ch5tr4355
    – Ravindra Gupta
    Commented Jun 19, 2020 at 13:34
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    For those who are having issue that putty exits after execution, we need to give "-t" option at the end so that the session remains interactive.
    – Lokesh Purohit
    Commented Aug 20, 2021 at 6:01
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For those who are having issue that putty exits after execution when we use -m, we need to give "-t" option at the end so that the session remains interactive.

putty.exe -ssh example.com -m "c:\pathOfCommandFile\cmd.txt" -t

So on windows, basically we can create a shortcut and in its property put the whole statement as above. In cmd.txt put the command to execute. You may have to give absolute path of putty.exe (example: C:\Program Files\PuTTY\putty.exe)

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If -t option was not enough and putty terminal still closes try adding this to your cmd.txt file at the end

...starting code you want to run (for example: cd "../../web/")
/bin/bash
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