Re: Opening remote file with scp and netrw on Windows 7

On 03/09/18, lessthanideal wrote:
> On Tuesday, 28 August 2018 20:22:15 UTC+1, Oliver Graute wrote:
> > I tried to open a remote file in Vim with this command:
> >
> > :e scp://root@192.168.1.229:2222//home/root/output.log
> >
> > on Linux this is working fine. But on Windows 7 just a command line
> > window is opening with this Error message:
> >
> > C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe -c "pscp -q -P 2222 "root@192.168.1.229:/home/root/output.log" "C:\Users\OGR\AppData\Local\Temp\VIA3B61.log""
> >
> > The command "oot" is either misspelled or could not be found.
> > shell returned 1
> >
> > Hit any key to close this window...
> >
> > I'am using vim 8.0 with netrw v156
> > Some hints howto fix this?
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Oliver
>
> The similar :e command works for me. I think the key difference may be my generated Windows command string includes the "/s" parameter which modifies how strings after "/c" are treated. (Run cmd /? to see details.) So your example modified to what I see looks like
>
> C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /s /c ""c:\program files (x86)\Putty\pscp.exe" -pw MyPassword -q -P 2222 "root@192.168.1.229:/home/root/output.log" "C:\Users\OGR\AppData\Local\Temp\VIA3B61.log""
>
> I have this in my _vimrc which I suppose is responsible
>
> "Fix passing quoted commands to cmd.exe
> "http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/browse_thread/thread/3d1cc6cb0c0d27b3
> if has ("win32") || has("win16")
> set shellxquote=\"
> set shellcmdflag=/s\ /c
> endif

ok this is fixing this error:

> > The command "oot" is either misspelled or could not be found.
> > shell returned 1

now he asks at least for the password but is complaing about unexpected
end-of-file

C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c pscp -q -P 2222 "root@192.168.1.229:/home/root/output.log"
"C:\Users\OGR\AppData\Local\Temp\VIA9103.log"
root@192.168.1.229's password:
Fatal: Received unexpected end-of-file from server
shell returned 1
Hit any key to close this window...

Best regards,

Oliver

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