SCP (Secure Copy) is a secure protocol based on SSH used for transferring files between computers.
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Linux to Windows (OpenSSH) directory bindings
I've got OpenSSH working on a windows machine and been able to successfully connect from Linux to Windows and vice versa.
Although, I need to know how linux paths are linked to windows while doing ...
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scp certain files only
I am trying to copy changed files to godaddy via ssh. Godaddy is terrible and so they of course do not allow rsync. I can use scp, but I really only want to copy changed files. I don't think this is ...
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What's the most seamless way to work over ssh on OSX?
There's something just wrong about scp'ing every file you've changed. I normally use Sublime Text 2 - is there an editor or something that can upload files right as they are changed via scp?
If not, ...
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sshfs or fish:// with root (ssh) login disabled
The server does not allow root login from ssh. I can, however, login as my username and su to root (I know the root pw).
Is there a way to use the fish:// protocol or sshfs or some other way to mount ...
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How to use scp command without the -i option and still find the priv key
I am logged into a win2008 box, I run scp with the -i option that points to the directory where the private key resides on the win2008 box.
scp -i "cygdrive/c/users/userid/privkey..." ...
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Resume recursive scp transfer (with rsync?)
I was transferring several thousand files each ~1MB via scp and my connection was broken after the first 2k files or so. I wanted to know if there was a way to resume the recursive transfer w/o ...
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SSH file transfers using ssh-keygen
I am a casual linux user but I am having a some difficulty understanding some directions sent to me from a company we provide data to. They want us to use ssh (which I have used before) to transfer ...
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`scp` searches for target alias on source host instead of local machine
When I try to copy files between two hosts, of which the second is identified by an alias:
scp host:foo alias:
scp tries to resolve alias by looking into host:.ssh/config and not my local ...
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scp No such file or directory
I've a confusing question for which superuser doesn't seem to have a good answer, and neither google.
I'm trying to scp a file from a remote server to my local machine. The command is this
scp ...
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Coda 2 and SCP uploading files with the wrong permission
Currently I have a basic Ubuntu server running a website. The website is for a few students learning HTML/PHP and each student has their own account with a symbolic link to the shared website folder. ...
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SSH and SCP giving error
I am doing the same steps (Perform SSH and SCP Without Entering Password on openSSH). But it keep asking password prompt while scp or 'ssh -l' command run. Same steps i did few days back, it was ...
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Sudo and perform scp
Possible duplicate of scp to remote server with sudo
I'm facing the following issue:
A folder (with sub-folders) with files belonging to usr1:usr1
I login with another user usr2
usr2 can do sudo -u ...
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SCP a remote file with a specific name
I have a script on a remote server that creates a log each day with the date on the name and need to import it to my local machine everyday, but with my script it transfers all the files and I just ...
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scp over ssh tunnel
I want to copy files from a remote computer (W) to a private host computer (P) via scp.
Since i can't connect to machine W directly i use an ssh tunnel over 2 different machines with port 22.
What i ...
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group permissions for scp
We have a server running as a firebird user. We want to scp files to the server that are need by firebird but copied as another user: it-test.
What is the best way to set that up on the ...
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Can SSH into remote server but can't SCP?
I can SSH into remote server just fine using private key authentication with prompt for passphrase.
However I'm getting permission denied when I try to SCP a file using the same passphrase. Here's my ...
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cygwin cygdrive paths and Windows Command Prompt
I'm having a weird issue with cygwin acting inconsistently between installations, specifically scp. I have c:\cygwin\bin in my Windows PATH in both cases. When I run the following command from a ...
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Expect not working using -c arguments
So I have an expect script like this that works:
#!/usr/bin/expect
spawn scp me@myserver.com:* .
expect {
password: {send "mypassword"; exp_continue}
}
Based on the man page for expect, I think I ...
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Linux: Continuously synchronize files, one way
Scenario: An IDE is set up on a Linux desktop box, editing PHP files locally. Every time I save a file, I want this change to appear on the linux server where Apache is running. The server has ssh ...
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“Open in PuTTY” command of WinSCP: Can I scp files from Linux back to Windows from terminal in opened PuTTY instance?
I use the command "Open in PuTTY" in WinSCP. A PuTTY window pops up, but I cannot find a way to scp files from Linux back to Windows using terminal command line in PuTTY. Do you guys think this is ...
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How to ssh and scp directly through a server?
I connect to server2 in the following way:
home$ ssh server1
server1$ ssh server2
server2$
I also sometimes need to scp this way, which takes some extra time:
home$ ssh server1
server1$ scp ...
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Hash verification when pushing via SCP
is there a simple way to verify file hash when uploading via SCP? I need a bash shell script, because the upload will be done automatically by cron.
I use this command:
scp backup.tar.gz ...
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How to copy all directory from another host to current host on Linux
My current files and directories are hosted with Godaddy.com and they don't allow scp over to another host, and I want to get all the pictures for wordpress under wp-content/uploads/* but when I tried ...
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SSH as Normal User --> SU --> SCP as Root
I'm on a Win7 box connecting to a linux server.
From reading: http://winscp.net/eng/docs/faq_su it looks like I need to open my SCP connections as the particular user.
When I connect via SSH, I can ...
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Ubuntu SSH communcation
I have installed to 2 Ubuntu on VMware and i m trying to communicate between 2 machines using ssh.
I made the following changes
Updated the etc/host files on 2 machines Master and Slave with ips
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transfer hundreds of files specified on a list between two servers
I need to download 800 files from a server to my server. These files have different names and they're in different subdirectories in the remote server, but I have their names on a list.
How can I do ...
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Is there a way to not override existing files when using pscp?
I am trying to copy files from a folder on a server using a batch file. However I don't want the files in the destination folder to be overridden. This is what i have:
set /p address=ip address:
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Non-interactive one-time ssh && scp for 100 servers
I need to copy some data from a cluster of very restricted machines through the network which currently has DNS problems (so some connections are bizarrely not working).
I found that the only way to ...
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How to verify SCP transfer was successful?
I'm using http://phpseclib.sourceforge.net/ to make an SSH connection to my server, then execute an SCP command to transfers to a remote server. The library's exec() method returns a string (looks ...
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How to scp files that match a particular date and name pattern
If I run an ls -ltr on myserver.org:/some/path/dir:
-rw-r--r-- 1 devops devops 20727251 Mar 16 08:02 herp1.derp
-rw-r--r-- 1 devops devops 24542012 Mar 16 08:03 herp2.derp
-rw-r--r-- 1 ...
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bash: using scp in cron job fails, but runs succesfully when run from command line
I am trying to use scp in a bash script run by cron (I am running this on Ubuntu 10.0.4 LTS).
The script works fine (i.e. transfers and copies file1 and file2 to/from the remote server, when I run it ...
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Change permissions upon uploading with scp
I am uploading files to my shell account using scp. As I need different permissions on the server than on my computer, I'd like to have a way to easily change the permissions upon upload without ...
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How can I scp when path and / or filename to copy has spaces?
I have in a remote remote_host a file like this:
\home\user\path with spaces\filename with spaces.ext
And I want to scp it to current dir .. How can I do that?
Thanks!
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WinSCP error setting up directory
I am getting the following error:
Reading Remote Directory: Error changing directory to '/script=E:\Data\GmousCR12\bin\Get.sftp'
Cannot get real path for '/script=E:\Data\GmousCR12\bin\Get.sftp'
No ...
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Is it possible to SCP from a remote to local whilst logged into the remote and without knowing the local's IP address?
I regularly find myself wanting to copy a file from remote terminal session to my local machine. Usually I log out of the remote session and call an scp transfer from local to copy the file from ...
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Are there any good alternatives to WinSCP?
I'm getting pretty sick of how WinSCP screws up line breaks.
this is line 1
this is line 2
Gets turned into
this is line 1
this is line 2
What programs do you guys use to handle FTP / SCP ?
I ...
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Why is rsync -avz faster than scp -r?
I'm a bit puzzled by this? Why is rsync faster than scp? Doesn't rsync use scp beneath or does it do something more efficient? Is there some way to speed up scp?
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scp “lost connection” but ssh works fine
A server I can ssh into fine has begun refusing to scp.
$ scp ~/tmp/foo user@some.example.com:~/tmp/
lost connection
With scp -v -v I can see the connection succeeds and the transfer appears to ...
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SCP giving out a blank line and not transfering files
As said, an image is worth a thousand words:
This blank line is weird.
SSH works correctly.
Some verbose mode shows me this:
I just... scp never gave up on me. Looks like it did today.
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scp between an AWS EC2 linux server and my home machine
I'm currnetly trying to retrieve files from my AWS EC2 Linux server to my Windows 7 PC using scp
I'm a bit of a Linux newbie and from the server I'm currently trying things like:
scp transferMe.tar ...
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scp tranfer can't be done bothways. lost connection
I'm trying to transfer a file via ssh but it works only from PC1 to PC2 but it doesn't work backwards.
My recievers firewall is disabled
I've checked my ssh_config files and both are the same. ...
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secure copy through two hosts
I need to copy files that are behind a firewall server using scp.
normaly to login to the server I do the following
ssh -p 5023 firewall.domainname.fr
now i am in behind the firewall I connect to ...
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Is there something similar to scp for tunneling over RDP?
Similar to how you can scp over ssh, is there something similar for over rdp?
I'm currently using the \tsclient\ (i.e. mapped drives) when on the remote server. But I wondering if there is a way of ...
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Run pscp as background process
I am using this command line of pscp to copy files from linux remote server to local computer with command prompt of my Windows Vista.
pscp -r username@example.com:/home/username/public_html/* ...
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WinSCP client for Ubuntu
Are there any GUI clients for Ubuntu which can remotely connect to another Linux box over SCP?
I heard about the fish:// protocol and Konqueror (which is for Kubuntu using KDE), but I am looking for ...
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SSH SFTP: transfer local directory to remote server
I can't seem to transfer a simple local folder to a remote server via SFTP or SSH. I feel like the issue has to do with absolute paths or home directories, but here's what I've tried:
scp -r ...
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trying to transfer a file from my computer to a unix server
I m trying to automate the deployment process wherein i follow the following steps-
1.Run a Ant Script to build a .ear file
2.Login to the unix server using putty(SSH Connection) providing the login ...
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Changing the auto-save frequency when editing files via Tramp / SSH
I am using Emacs (23.3.1) with Tramp to edit files on a remote SSH server. Right now these files are being auto-saved / auto-uploaded about once every minute. During each upload, anything I type does ...
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Under what circumstances does the scp command fail?
I have two linux(redhat 5.6, 64 bit) servers(hp proliant 380p g8), server1's eth0,eth2 bonded to bond0.Similarly server 2's eth0,eth2 bonded to bond0. server1's eth0 connects to cisco(3560 catalyst) ...
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How can I resume a large scp file transfer when using port forwarding?
I have a machine a couple of hops away, and I need to set up port forwarding in order to transfer files.
Edit: To be clear, the multiple hops are needed in order to access the remote machine. From ...
