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I am very new to both WinSCP and batch file scripting. So excuse me if this question is very basic. I am trying to upload file from my local folder to remote folder using batch file. The name of the file changes every week. I am facing 2 problems.

  1. I am using below code in batch file to upload a file to WinSCP
"C:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP\WinSCP.com" ^
  /command ^
    open sftp://descartes:z*******[email protected]/ -hostkey="ssh-rsa 1024 ******=" ^
    "lcd  C:\Users\kajal.jain\Downloads\New folder" ^
    "cd /" ^
    "put Week 7 2022 Portal Data" ^
    "exit"

I am getting below error.

Unknown command 'lcd  C:\Users\kajal.jain\Downloads\New folder'.
Same for cd
  1. As the name of file to be uploaded changes every week. How can I automate it in the Put command?
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    You are missing a double quote before the OPEN command. You also need to quote file paths and folder paths with spaces like so. "put ""Week 7 2022 Portal Data""" Commented Feb 22, 2022 at 21:10
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    I'd recommend using the /script option and a separate file instead of trying to type everything out on the command line. Commented Feb 22, 2022 at 22:57

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  1. Add quotes! Since WinSCP needs all its commands with spaces surrounded by double-quotes (see syntax reference here), I'd first put some around that open ... command, and then around other paths in your lcd and put commands. You can use two double-quotes to mean a literal " in your command.

  2. Pass in a filename. You can use %1 to refer to the first command-line argument to this batch file. So if you save the script below as "upload.bat"...

"C:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP\WinSCP.com" ^
  /command ^
    "open sftp://descartes:z*******[email protected]/ -hostkey=""ssh-rsa 1024 ******=""" ^
    "lcd  ""C:\Users\kajal.jain\Downloads\New folder""" ^
    "cd /" ^
    "put %1" ^
    "exit"

...then from the command line you could type

upload "Week 7 2022 Portal Data"

to have it upload that file (quotes are important there too).

Another option--and I'll leave it to you to research--if you didn't want to give it a filename at all, you could explore using the SET command so it'd do something like always looking for and uploading a file named with today's date. More info here on batch arguments and SET.

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