On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:56:56 +0930, Tim wrote: > If I only have SSH access to a remote box, no option to set up NFS, SMB, > use a HTTP or FTP server, what method do I use to copy a file from one > box to the other? > > -- > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. You use scp, whose syntax is similar to cp: scp source destination Either source or destination can be remote. You specify the remote location by pre-pending it with user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx: (note the : ). For instance: scp user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/path/to/file local_file copies /path/to/file from the remote machine to local_file (in the current directory where scp is being run). It also works the other way around: scp local_file user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:. will copy local_file to users' home directory on the remote machine. The . is important. It's the current directory on the remote machine, which defaults to the users' home directory.
