scp files from local to remote machine error no such file or directory

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I want to be able to transfer a directory and all its files from my local machine to my remote one  I dont use SCP much so I am a bit confused   I am connected to my remote machine via ssh and I typed in the command  scp name127 0 0 1 local machine path to directory filename  the local machine path to directory is the value i got from using pwd in the desired directory on my local host   I am currently getting the error   No such file or directory

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As  Astariul said  path to the file might cause this bug  In addition  any parent directory which contains non-ASCII character  for example Chinese  will cause this  In that case  you should rename you parent directory

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Your problem can be caused by different things  I will provide you three possible scenarios in Linux    The File location   When you use scp name   you mean that your File name is in Home directory  When it is in Home but inside in another Folder  for example  my folder  you should write   scp  home my-username my folder name my-username 127 0 0 1  Path        You File Permission   You must know the File Permission your File has  If you have Read-only you should change it   To change the Permission    As Root  sudo caja   the default file manager for the MATE Desktop  or another file manager  then with you Mouse    right-click to the File name   select Properties   Permissions and change it on Group and Other to Read and write    Or with chmod     You Port Number   Maybe you remote machine or Server can only communicate with a Port Number  so you should write -P and the Port Number   scp -P 22  home my-username my folder name my-usernamee 127 0 0 1  var www html

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You also need to make sure what is in the  bashrc file of the user  I ve also got this ridiculous error because I put cd and ls commands in there  as it was mean to let them see the current files  amp  directories when the user is has logged in from ssh

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Be sure the folder from where you send the file does not contain space    I was trying to send a file to a remote server from my windows machine from VS code terminal  and I got this error even if the file was here   It s because the folder where the file was contained space in its name

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If you want to copy everything in a Folder   have a special Port use this one  Works for me on Ubuntu 18 04 and a local machine with Mac OS X   -r for recursive -P for Port  scp -rP 1234  Your Directory Source Folder  username yourdomain com  target folder

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Looks like you are trying to copy to a local machine with that command    An example scp looks more like the command below   Copy the file  foobar txt  from the local host to a remote host    scp foobar txt your username remotehost edu  some remote directory   scp  the file   your username the remote host the path to the directory    to send a directory   Copy the directory  foo  from the local host to a remote host s directory  bar     scp -r foo your username remotehost edu  some remote directory bar   scp -r  the directory to copy  your username the remote host the path to the directory to copy to    and to copy from remote host to local   Copy the file  foobar txt  from a remote host to the local host    scp your username remotehost edu foobar txt  your local directory   scp your username the remote host the file  your local directory      and to include port number   Copy the file  foobar txt  from a remote host with port 8080 to the local host    scp -P 8080 your username remotehost edu foobar txt  your local directory   scp -P port number your username the remote host the file  your local directory    From a windows machine to linux machine using putty  pscp -r  lt directory to copy gt  username remotehost  path to directory on remote host

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i had a kind of similar problem  i tried to copy from a server to my desktop and always got the same message for the local path  the problem was  i already was logged in to my server per ssh  so it was searching for the local path in the server path   solution  i had to log out and run the command again and it worked

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In my case I had to specify the Port Number using   scp -P 2222 username hostip  directory   localdirectory

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The filename should go at the end of the path to the directory   That is  it should be the full path to the file   You are doing this from a command line  and you have a working directory for that command line  on your local machine   this is the directory that your file will be downloaded to   The final argument in your command is only what you want the name of the file to be   So  first  change directory to where you want the file to land   I m doing this from git bash on a Windows machine  so it looks like this  cd C  Users myUserName Downloads  Now that I have my working directory where I want the file to go  scp -i  c  Users myUserName  ssh AWSkeyfile pem  ec2-user xx xxx xxx xxx  home ec2-user IwantThisFile tar IgotThisFile tar  Or  in your case  cd  local path where you want the file to land scp name 127 0 0 1  local machine path to directory filename filename

[scp] scp files from local to remote machine error: no such file or directory

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