How to run a PowerShell script from Cygwin SSH session?

Question

Hi I have Windows Server 2003 with CopSSH installed on it ( Cygwin + sshd ). W would like to be able to run a PowerShell script via SSH session command and then use it's output. Is there such capability ? How to do it ?

Answer 1

Just invoke powershell with the relevant arguments and pipe it to wherever you want it? You need to make sure it's in the PATH of course.

Answer 2

First thing it is good to add PowerShell's executable path to user's PATH environmental variable. We do it by adding to user's .bashrc file line like:

export PATH=${PATH}:"/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0"

Then we can run PowerShell script just typing in our SSH session

powershell.exe -File "c:\u.ps1"

Of course now we can pipe it to use it's output.

I just wonder why I have to press "Enter" two times in my SSH session after typing the command for it to work.