Apr 13, 2017 · Because in this example of manual: rsync -t *.c foo:src/ -> "This would transfer all files matching the pattern *.c from the current directory to the directory src on the machine foo. If any of the files already exist on the remote system then the rsync remote-update protocol is used to update the file by sending only the differences"

Aug 7, 2014 · An explanation of why globs (*), don't work. It is done in shell, so exactly the same text (argument) will be passed to scp. You need to change the text (argument) that is passed to scp. (see answer below, for what to change text argument to.)

I try to transfer files from remote computer using ssh to my computer : scp My_file.txt user_id@server:/Home This should put My_file.txt in the home folder on my own computer, right? I get sc...

Jul 2, 2015 · But when I am copying files using WinSCP , I can't create create/modify files in /var/www/, because the user I'm connecting with does not have permissions on files in /var/www/ and I can't say sudo su as I do in case of an ssh session. Do you know how i could deal with this ?

Sep 30, 2015 · From man scp: -r Recursively copy entire directories. Note that scp follows symbolic links encountered in the tree traversal. So if you have sub-directories inside local_dir, the last example will only transfer files, but if you set the -r option, it will transfer files and directories.

Nov 30, 2016 · For example, if the file is called foo bar.txt and is in your home directory: scp [email protected]:'foo\ bar.txt' . If you have difficulties with files containing punctuation characters, try using sftp instead of scp to transfer them.

scp [email protected]:myfirst.txt . Here you are running scp with two arguments. The first is the source, a remote file: [email protected]:myfirst.txt. The last argument is the destination. In your case: .. . is the current directory, so the file will end up in your current directory. If you want it to go somewhere else, …

Mar 18, 2019 · Instead of scp from Ubuntu to Win10, you might consider using Win10 to take files from Ubuntu; then, you can use programs like Filezilla.

Oct 14, 2011 · Don't mind me if I add a couple of Google-able keywords to make this more visible: scp doesn't work Permission denied (publickey). lost connection for ec2 compute.amazonaws.com

This isn't "scp with regular expressions", the one handling the file globs is the shell. scp just gets handed the already expanded list of files. And the expansion happens on the machine where the command is run.