To use full power of scp you need to go through next steps:. Public key authorisation; Create SSH aliases; Then, for example if you have this ~/.ssh/config:

Jun 19, 2015 · rsync is a program that behaves in much the same way that rcp does, but has many more options and uses the rsync remote-update protocol to greatly speed up file transfers when the destination file is being updated.

Nov 27, 2013 · An article about setting up Ghost blogging says to use scp to copy from my local machine to a remote server: scp -r ghost-0.3 root@*your-server-ip*:~/ However, Railscast 339: Chef Solo Basics uses scp to copy in the opposite direction (from the remote server to the local machine): scp -r [email protected]:/var/chef .

Sep 8, 2008 · A valid use for this would be a bash script that does multiple scp/ssh calls to a server where you want to ask the user for the password for the remote server.

May 2, 2017 · Although scp supports recursive directory copying with the -r option, it does not support filtering of the files. There are several ways to accomplish your task, but I would probably rely on find, xargs, tar, and ssh instead of scp. find . -type d -wholename '*bench*/image' \ | xargs tar cf - \ | ssh user@remote tar xf - -C /my/dir

Jun 2, 2013 · scp -r ./dir-with-files user@remote-server:upload-path scp -r user@remote-server:path-to-dir-with-files download-path so for instance. scp -r [email protected]:/var/log ~/backup-logs Or if there is just few of them, you can use: scp 1.txt 2.txt 3.log user@remote-server:upload-path

scp uses : to delimit the host and path, so it thinks you have asked it to download a file at the path \Users\Admin\Desktop\WMU\5260\A2.c from the host C to your local home directory. The correct upload command, based on your comments, should be something like:

Feb 4, 2012 · scp helloWorld.txt appMachine:. # copy without intermediate jumphost/bastion host copy.** ofcourse you can specify bastion Jump host using option "-J" to ssh command, if not configured in config file. Note scp does not seems to support "-J" flag as of now. (i could not find in man pages. However above scp works with config file setting)

Dec 11, 2013 · scp -C -i ./remoteServerKey.ppk -r /var/www/* [email protected]:/var/www I use the same .ppk as in putty and enter the same passphrase, but it asks me 3 times and than says connection denied. I thought I used it before and it worked, but it isn´t atm.

Here is an excerpt from scp's man page with all of the details concerning the two switches, as well as an explanation of why uppercase P was chosen for scp: -P port Specifies the port to connect to on the remote host.