copying via ssh??

[Oddysseey]

hello everyone!

i was wondering how i could copy files from my local HD to a remote host via the terminal using ssh??

thanks for response,

oddy

 

[scruffy]

You want scp for individual file copies, or sftp for an ftp-like interface for multiple copies and such.

Check the man pages for details, it's pretty straightforward

 

[Oddysseey]

well, after connecting to the server via ssh, it says that i can't access my local home directory for copying files.... someone can help me?
thanks,

oddy

 

[lurk]

you don't need to ssh to the other host just do it from your machine like this

scp my/local/file.txt me@somewhere.com:where/it/goes/

The trick is that you add the user@host: bit to specify the remote directory. Also scp does multiple files just fine as well as recursive copies of directories. The only trick is that if you want to use a * in the remote name you have to put quotes around the whole thing like this

scp "bob@example.com:topsecret/*.html" ~/Documents

This will grab all the html files in Bob's top secret directory.

To recursively grab a directory use the -R switch and you are golden.