Simple copy through SSH

June 25, 2008 · Filed Under Linux 

Copying files between remote machines can be easily done
using SCP command.

The syntax is:

copy from a remote machine to my machine:

scp user@192.168.0.1:/home/file.txt /home/x.txt

copy from my machine to a remote machine:

scp /home/x.txt user@192.168.0.1:/home/x.txt

copy all x*.txt from a remote machine to my machine (x01.txt, x02.txt, etc.)

scp “user@192.168.0.1:/home/x*.txt” /home/x.txt

copy a directory from a remote machine to my machine:

scp -r user@192.168.0.1:/home/folder /home/

Comments

One Response to “Simple copy through SSH”

  1. http://www.kernelfaq.com/ on August 8th, 2008 6:50 am

    To copy from one machine (machine2) to other machine (machine3), but by using a different machine (machine1):
    Execute below command in machine1
    scp user2@machine2:/path2 user3@machine3:/path3

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