scp from Linux to Windows

Question

I am running a putty client on a Windows machine to connect successfully to a Linux box  Now I want to be able to copy a file from the Linux machine under the path  home ubuntu myfile to C  Users Anshul Desktop on my local computer  The user at the Windows machine is anshul  I am giving the following command on putty but it is not working   scp  home ubuntu myfile ip address of windows machine C  Users Anshul Desktop    I think the path for the Windows machine is wrong  Please help as I have banged my head on a large number of forums but none seem to give correct path for Windows server  Don t suggest alternate options like WinScp

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You could use something like the following

scp -r username_Linuxmachine@LinuxMachineAddress:Path/To/File Path/To/Local/System/Directory

This will copy the File to the specified local directory on the system you are currently working on.

The -r flag tells scp to recursively copy if the remote path is indeed a directory.

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I had to use pscp like above Hesham s post once I downloaded and installed putty   I did it to Windows from Linux on Windows so I entered the following  c  ssl gt pscp username linuxserver keenan ssl      This will copy everything in the keenan ssl folder to the local folder     you performed this command from  c  ssl    The keenan ssl will specify the home folder of the username user  for example the full path would be  home username keenan ssl  You can specify a different folder using a forward slash      such as c  ssl gt pscp username linuxserver  home username keenan ssl      So you can specify any folder at the root of Linux using

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Access from Windows by Git Bash console   scp root ip  etc    your-file  C  Users XXX Download

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As  Hesham Eraqi suggested  it worked for me in this way  transfering from Ubuntu to Windows  I tried to add a comment in that answer but because of reputation  I couldn t     pscp -v -r -P 53670 user xxx xxx xxx xxx  data genetic map sample P2 283     Desktop-mojbd3n d cc 01-1940 data    where   -v  show verbose messages  -r  copy directories recursively  -P  connect to specified port  53670  the port number to connect the Ubuntu server    Desktop-mojbd3n d genetic map data   I needed to transfer to an external HDD  thus I had to give permissions of sharing to this device

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Your code isn t working because c   or d   is totally wrong for linux just use  mnt c or mnt c  From your local windows10-ubuntu bash use this command   for download   from your remote server folder to d  ubuntu     scp username ipaddress  folder file txt  mnt d ubuntu   Then type your remote server password if there is need   for upload   from d  ubuntu  to remote server      scp  mnt d ubuntu file txt username ipaddress  folder file txt    Then type your remote server password if there is need  note  I tested and it worked

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Try this   scp  home ubuntu myfile C  users Anshul Desktop

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Download pscp from Putty download page  then use it from Windows Command Line CMD as follows   pscp username linux machine ip of linux machine  home ubuntu myfile ext C  Users Name Downloads   Copying starts once you enter the password for the Linux machine

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To send a file from windows to linux system  scp path-to-file user ipaddress  path-to-destination  Example   scp C  Users adarsh Desktop Document txt root 127 0 0 1  tmp   keep in mind that there need to use forward slash    inplace of backward slash    in for the file in windows path else it will show an error      C UsersadarshDesktopDocument txt  No such file or directory     After executing scp command you will ask for password of root user in linux machine  There you GO     To send a file from linux to windows system  scp -r user ipaddress  path-to-file path-to-destination  Example   scp -r root 127 0 0 1  tmp Document txt C  Users adarsh Desktop    and provide your linux password  only one you have to add in this command is -r  Thanks

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Here is the solution to copy files from Linux to Windows using SCP without password by ssh    Install sshpass in Linux machine to skip password prompt Script  sshpass -p  xxxxxxx  scp  home user1     testuser x x x x  d test    Details   sshpass -p  password  scp  source path     windowsusername windowsMachine ip  destination drive subfolder

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If you want to copy paste files from Unix to Windows and Windows to Unix just use filezilla with port 22

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Windows doesn t support SSH SCP SFTP natively  Are you running an SSH server application on that Windows server  If so  one of the configuration options is probably where the root is  and you would specify paths relative to that root  In any case  check the documentation for the SSH server application you are running in Windows   Alternatively  use smbclient to push the file to a Windows share

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For all  who has installed GiT completly with  Git Bash   You can just write   scp login ip addres  location to folders file tar      with space and DOT at the end to copy to current location   Than just add certificate  y   write password and that s all

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I know this is old but I was struggling with the same  I haven t found a way to change directories  but if you just want to work with the C drive  scp defaults to C  To scp from Ubuntu to Windows  I ended up having to use  notice the double back-slashes       scp  local file path user 111 11 11 111 Users  Anshul  Desktop   Hope this helps someone

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This one worked for me   scp  home ubuntu myfile username IP of windows machine  C  Users Anshul Desktop

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Open bash window  Preferably git bash  write  scp username remote ip  directory of file filename  windows location you want to store the file   Example   Suppose your username is jewel  your IP is 176 35 96 32  your remote file location is  usr local forme  your filename is logs zip  and you want to store in your windows PC s D drive forme folder then the command will be  scp jewel 176 35 96 32  usr local forme logs zip  D  forme     Keep the local file directory inside single quote

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Try this  it really works     scp username from host ip  home ubuntu myfile  cygdrive c Users Anshul Desktop   And for copying all files    scp -r username from host ip  home ubuntu        cygdrive c Users Anshul Desktop

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