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I'm currently logged onto my remote server and I need to transfer a file from my local machine to my remote server using SCP but it doesn't seem to be working. I was able to do it using SFTP but I don't know why I am having such a difficult time with using SCP.
[awong10@hills ~]$ scp -r ~/sugar.txt awong10@147.144.12.15:.
this is the command I entered but apparently it's wrong. am I missing something?
You need to use the scp command from your local box.
I assume, ssh server is running on remote box.
scp -r <File/Folder> username@remoteServerIP:<dirNameToCopy>
So this should work fine. It will copy ~/sugar.txt from your localbox to your remote server in home directory of awong10 user
scp -r ~/sugar.txt awong10@147.144.12.15:~
Note:-
-r option is not needed as such for copying a single file. If you want to copy whole folder then use -r
scp user@localbox:/file/source ~/destination to copy /file/source from remote server (your local box) to your "local" server, where you ssh'd into. Also see: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/188285/…
You can even use rsync
rsync [flags] [local path] [user]@[remote server]:[remote path]
Flags
r – Recursive
l – Transfer any symlinks encountered
t – Preserve time stamps
p – Preserve permissions
g – Preserve groups
o – Preserve ownership
D – Preserve block and character devices
You may want to add the following to your command for easier to read file sizes:
h – Human-readable format of file sizes
