can perform a lot of SSH functions you may be familiar with. is a utility that comes with WinSCP that supports only console operations and is great for automation scripts. Winscp.exe is only a command-line way to interact with various features of the WinSCP GUI.Īlthough winscp.exe is great on the command-line for simple, ad-hoc transfers, if you need to run WinSCP in a script, it won’t work. But, you can perform some simple commands with it on the command line if you specify a few parameters.

Winscp.exe is actually the same utility used to invoke the GUI, but you can also perform some command-line tasks with it too. But first, you must understand the two different WinSCP CLI tools winscp.exe and. Now that you know how to generate a session URL, it’s time to actually use one and learn how to connect to a host with WinSCP on the command line. Instead, you must define those attributes another way. The command-line doesn’t have windows and interactivity like this. This window allows you to specify remote connection properties. When you work with WinSCP in the GUI, you have the luxury of the Login window shown below.

A user account on the remote SSH host with sudo permissions.

A remote Linux host – This tutorial will use an Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS machine.

A Windows XP+ PC – This tutorial will use Windows 10 Enterprise.