Transfer files to from session I m logged in with PuTTY

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I m logged into a remote host using PuTTY    What is the command to transfer files from my local machine to the machine I m logged into on PuTTY

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Same everyday problem  I just created a simple vc project to solve this problem  It copies the file as Base64 encoded data directly to the clipboard  and then this can be pasted into the PuTTY console and decoded on the remote side  This solution is for relatively small files  relative to the connection speed to your remote console   Installation  Download clip b64 exe and place it in the SendTo folder  or a  lnk shortcut to it   To open this folder  in the address bar of the explorer  enter shell sendto or  appdata  Microsoft Windows SendTo  You may need to install VC 2017 redist to run it  or use the statically linked clip b64s exe execution  Usage  On the local machine  In the File Explorer  right-click the file you are transferring to open the context menu  then go to the  quot Send To quot  section and select Clip B64 from the list  On the remote console  over putty-ssh link   Run the shell command base64 -d  gt  file-name-you-want and right-click in the console  or press Shift   Insert  to place the clipboard content in it  and then press Ctrl   D to finish  voila

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There s no way to initiate a file transfer back to from local Windows from a SSH session opened in PuTTY window   Though PuTTY supports connection-sharing   While you still need to run a compatible file transfer client  the pscp or psftp   no new login is required  it automatically  if enabled  makes use of an existing PuTTY session   To enable the sharing see  Sharing an SSH connection between PuTTY tools     Alternative way is to use WinSCP  a GUI SFTP SCP client  While you browse the remote site  you can anytime open SSH terminal to the same site using Open in PuTTY button   See Opening Session in PuTTY   With an additional setup  you can even make PuTTY automatically navigate to the same directory you are browsing with WinSCP   See Opening PuTTY in the Same Directory    I m the author of WinSCP

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Transferring files with Putty  pscp plink exe   The default putty installation provides multiple ways to transfer files  Most likely putty is on your default path  so you can directly call putty from the command prompt  If it doesnt  you may have to change your environmental variables  See instructions here  https   it cornell edu managed-servers transfer-files-using-putt  Steps   Open command prompt by typing cmd To transfer folders from your Windows computer to another Windows computer use  notice the -r flag  which indicates that the files will be transferred recursively  no need to zip them up   pscp -r -i C  Users username  ssh id rsa ppk  C  Program Files  x86  Terminal PC  ipython user 10 15 48 54   C  Program Files  x86    To transfer files from your Windows computer to another Windows computer use   pscp -i C  Users username  ssh id rsa ppk  C  Program Files  x86  Terminal PC  ipython user 10 15 48 54   C  Program Files  x86    Sometimes  you may only have plink installed  plink can potentially be used to transfer files  but its best restricted to simple text files  It may have unknown behavior with binary files  https   superuser com questions 1289455 create-text-file-on-remote-machine-using-plink-putty-with-contents-of-windows-lo   plink -i C  Users username  ssh id rsa ppk user host  lt localfile  cat  gt hostfile  To transfer files from a linux server to a Windows computer to a Linux computer use  pscp -r -i C  Users username  ssh id rsa ppk  C  Program Files  x86  Terminal PC  username 10 15 48 16  home username   For all these to work  you need to have the proper public private key  To generate that for putty see  https   superuser com a 1285789 658319

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Click on start menu   Click run In the open box  type cmd then click ok At the command prompt  enter      c  pscp source file name userid server name  path destination file name       For example       c  pscp november2012 wrhse warehouse cit cornell edu  mydata november2012     When promted  enter your password for server    Enjoy

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This is probably not a direct answer to what you re asking  but when I need to transfer files over a SSH session I use WinSCP  which is an excellent file transfer program over SCP or SFTP  Of course this assumes you re on Windows

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You can also download psftp exe from   http   www chiark greenend org uk  sgtatham putty download html  When you run it you type   open  server name    Then   put  file name     Type help to get a full list of commands    You can also type get  lt file name gt  to download files from a remote machine to the local machine

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If you have to do private key validation  at Command Prompt cmd   run  First   set PATH C  PuttySetupLocation   Second   pscp -i C  MyPrivateKeyFile ppk C  MySourceFile jar ubuntu 55 69 41 155  home ubuntu   Also  if you need extra options look at the following link  https   the earth li  sgtatham putty 0 60 htmldoc Chapter5 html

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In that way on windows pscp allows an upload directly  without any request for e g  key-accepting    pscp exe -scp -pw  my pw  -v -i my ppk -l root -batch -sshlog logfile19 txt -hostkey ba 2e 4d 12 68 82 19 a1 d2 22 bc 12 c2 1a 44 a7 hallo4 txt root 10 10 10 10  srv www htdocs xml parser hallo4 txt

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PuTTY usually comes with a client called psftp which you can leverage for this purpose  I don t believe you can do it through the standard PuTTY client  although I may be proven wrong on that    PuTTY only gives you access to manipulate the remote machine  It doesn t provide a direct link between the two file systems any more than sitting down at the remote machine does

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Look here   http   web archive org web 20170106202838 https   it cornell edu services managed servers howto file transfer fileputty cfm puttytrans  It recommends using pscp exe from PuTTY  which can be found here  https   www chiark greenend org uk  sgtatham putty latest html  A direct transfer like FTP is not possible  because all commands during your session are send to the server

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If it is only one file  you can use following procedure  in putty     vi filename extension  opens new file name in active folder on server   copy   mouse right click while over putty  copy and paste   edit and save    vi editor commands   Edit file permission with next command  chmod u x filename extension

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Since you asked about to from  here s a trick that works for the  from  part  Open the  Change settings     screen  Terminal  and under  Printer to send ANSI printer output to   select  Generic   Text Only   Now on the remote system  run this on one line   tput mc5  cat whatever txt  tput mc4   Putty will inform you that the file was saved  What this is doing is putting the terminal into printer mode  tput mc5   printing the file to the screen  cat   and then turning off printer mode  tput mc4   If you don t put all the commands on one line  the screen will appear frozen because Putty is saving all terminal output to a file in the background   If you re on a more limited system that doesn t have the tput command  e g  a qnap   you can try printf   x1b 5i  instead of tput mc5  and printf   x1b 4i  instead of tput mc4   The command in the middle is just anything that prints to the screen  So use tail -n 10000 blah log to download the last 10k lines of the log file  or use a base64 encoder to map a binary file to something you can print  and then decode on your local system    printf   x1b 5i   openssl enc -base64 -in something zip  printf   x1b 4i

[sftp] Transfer files to/from session I'm logged in with PuTTY

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