Transferring files over SSH

Question

I m SSHing into a remote server on the command line  and trying to copy a directory onto my local machine with the scp command  However  the remote server returns this  usage  message    Stewart console ebooks discostat  jmm  scp -p   styles  usage  scp  -1246BCEpqrv   -c cipher   -F ssh config   -i identity file              -l limit   -o ssh option   -P port   -S program               user  host1  file1         user  host2  file2  Stewart console ebooks discostat  jmm    I d like to be able to transfer files in both directions  From what I read  I thought the above command would work for downloading  and scp -p  localpath   remotepath  for uploading

User · Answer

You need to specify both source and destination, and if you want to copy directories you should look at the -r option.

So to recursively copy /home/user/whatever from remote server to your current directory:

scp -pr user@remoteserver:whatever .

User · Answer

If copying to from your desktop machine  use WinSCP  or if on Linux  Nautilus supports SCP via the Connect To Server option   scp can only copy files to a machine running sshd  hence you need to run the client software on the remote machine from the one you are running scp on   If copying on the command line  use     copy from local machine to remote machine scp localfile user host  path to whereyouwant thefile   or    copy from remote machine to local machine scp user host  path to remotefile localfile

User · Answer

If copying to from your desktop machine  use WinSCP  or if on Linux  Nautilus supports SCP via the Connect To Server option   scp can only copy files to a machine running sshd  hence you need to run the client software on the remote machine from the one you are running scp on   If copying on the command line  use     copy from local machine to remote machine scp localfile user host  path to whereyouwant thefile   or    copy from remote machine to local machine scp user host  path to remotefile localfile

User · Answer

You need to scp something somewhere  You have scp   styles   so you re saying secure copy   styles   but not where to copy it to   Generally  if you want to download  it will go     download  remote - gt  local scp user remote host remote file local file    where local file might actually be a directory to put the file you re copying in  To upload  it s the opposite     upload  local - gt  remote scp local file user remote host remote file   If you want to copy a whole directory  you will need -r  Think of scp as like cp  except you can specify a file with user remote host file as well as just local files   Edit  As noted in a comment  if the usernames on the local and remote hosts are the same  then the user can be omitted when specifying a remote file

User · Answer

You need to specify both source and destination, and if you want to copy directories you should look at the -r option.

So to recursively copy /home/user/whatever from remote server to your current directory:

scp -pr user@remoteserver:whatever .

User · Answer

You need to specify both source and destination, and if you want to copy directories you should look at the -r option.

So to recursively copy /home/user/whatever from remote server to your current directory:

scp -pr user@remoteserver:whatever .

User · Answer

No  you still need to scp  from   to  whichever way you re copying  The difference is  you need to scp -p server serverpath localpath

User · Answer

No  you still need to scp  from   to  whichever way you re copying  The difference is  you need to scp -p server serverpath localpath

User · Answer

You need to scp something somewhere  You have scp   styles   so you re saying secure copy   styles   but not where to copy it to   Generally  if you want to download  it will go     download  remote - gt  local scp user remote host remote file local file    where local file might actually be a directory to put the file you re copying in  To upload  it s the opposite     upload  local - gt  remote scp local file user remote host remote file   If you want to copy a whole directory  you will need -r  Think of scp as like cp  except you can specify a file with user remote host file as well as just local files   Edit  As noted in a comment  if the usernames on the local and remote hosts are the same  then the user can be omitted when specifying a remote file

User · Answer

You need to scp something somewhere  You have scp   styles   so you re saying secure copy   styles   but not where to copy it to   Generally  if you want to download  it will go     download  remote - gt  local scp user remote host remote file local file    where local file might actually be a directory to put the file you re copying in  To upload  it s the opposite     upload  local - gt  remote scp local file user remote host remote file   If you want to copy a whole directory  you will need -r  Think of scp as like cp  except you can specify a file with user remote host file as well as just local files   Edit  As noted in a comment  if the usernames on the local and remote hosts are the same  then the user can be omitted when specifying a remote file

User · Answer

If copying to from your desktop machine  use WinSCP  or if on Linux  Nautilus supports SCP via the Connect To Server option   scp can only copy files to a machine running sshd  hence you need to run the client software on the remote machine from the one you are running scp on   If copying on the command line  use     copy from local machine to remote machine scp localfile user host  path to whereyouwant thefile   or    copy from remote machine to local machine scp user host  path to remotefile localfile

User · Answer

No  you still need to scp  from   to  whichever way you re copying  The difference is  you need to scp -p server serverpath localpath

User · Answer

You need to scp something somewhere  You have scp   styles   so you re saying secure copy   styles   but not where to copy it to   Generally  if you want to download  it will go     download  remote - gt  local scp user remote host remote file local file    where local file might actually be a directory to put the file you re copying in  To upload  it s the opposite     upload  local - gt  remote scp local file user remote host remote file   If you want to copy a whole directory  you will need -r  Think of scp as like cp  except you can specify a file with user remote host file as well as just local files   Edit  As noted in a comment  if the usernames on the local and remote hosts are the same  then the user can be omitted when specifying a remote file

User · Answer

If copying to from your desktop machine  use WinSCP  or if on Linux  Nautilus supports SCP via the Connect To Server option   scp can only copy files to a machine running sshd  hence you need to run the client software on the remote machine from the one you are running scp on   If copying on the command line  use     copy from local machine to remote machine scp localfile user host  path to whereyouwant thefile   or    copy from remote machine to local machine scp user host  path to remotefile localfile

User · Answer

No  you still need to scp  from   to  whichever way you re copying  The difference is  you need to scp -p server serverpath localpath

User · Answer

You need to specify both source and destination, and if you want to copy directories you should look at the -r option.

So to recursively copy /home/user/whatever from remote server to your current directory:

scp -pr user@remoteserver:whatever .

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