Executing a shell script from windows;script present in unix

UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
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I need to execute a shell script kept in unix machine from windows. User id, password area available.
For eg.
There's a shell script wich moves all the logs kept in my home directory to a directory named LOGS.
Now i need to get this done through windows; either using a batch file, or java program or any other feasible way.

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Way1: Create a batch in windows to ftp files to unix server

Way2: Start ftp services on windows machine, ftp into windows machines from unix server and get the required data.

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Thanks For the reply.
But actually my requirement is not of getting some files from or to unix.

There's a shell script in unix. I need to get that executed without manually goin into unix.
I want to write a program in windows which will run and execute that shell script.

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The only way(s) I could think of:

  1. In Windoze, install Cygwin and start the Unix script from there (proper network setup as well as revision of the script required);

  2. in Windoze, create a Bat(ch) that puts a trigger (my favorite: an empty file named "Godot") on the Unix machine, then create a cron job (in Unix, of course) that scans for this "trigger file" and executes the script if it exists.

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If their is such a thing as a command line version of a SSH client for windows ( at SSHWindows.SourceForge.Net: OpenSSH for Windows perhaps?) and you set up SSH keys to allow password-less login then you can then run from a batch file:

ssh username@machinename.foobar.com /path/command

which will then run "/path/command" as the user "username".

There have been various threads about passwordless SSH before but I will mention the URL ( http://www.jfitz.com/tips/ssh_for_windows.html#Automatic_login ) as it is covering with SSH for Windows.