[ale] Dumb question - file transfer over SSH?

[Joseph A Knapka]

Charles Marcus wrote:
> 
> > From: Jerry Z. Yu [mailto:z.yu at ptek.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 11:09 AM
> > To: Charles Marcus
> > Cc: Ale (E-mail)
> >
> > scp, the companion tool in most SSH packages, is the tool you
> > need.
> >
> > to upload:
> > scp localfile userid at remote.server:/remote/server/directory
> >
> > to download:
> > scp userid at remote.server:/remote/server/directory localfile
> 
> OK, as far as I can tell, I'm doing it right.  I get the password prompts, and
> I was even able to *apparently* download a file successfully (saw the file
> transfer progression indicator, no errors) - but I have no idea where the file
> went.  I did a full search on all of my hard drives for the filename, with no
> results.
> 
> :(
> 
> I may have neglected to say, and maybe this is the problem - I am accessing a
> remote FreeBSD box fropm a WINBLOZE workstation (Win2K-Pro).
> 
> Sure hope someone knows the trick to get me going here.  The file transfers I
> need to make are starting to pile up.

scp works basically *exactly* like cp: it takes the
first file and copies it to the second, assuming
the current directory unless you provide a path. So
I'll copy the file address.txt from "me"'s home dir
on host "faraway" to my local dir, then copy it to
the /tmp dir on host "somewhere-else":

C:> scp me at faraway:~/address.txt address.txt
Password: ...
C:> type ./address.txt
This is my address file...
...
C:> scp address.txt me at somewhere-else:/tmp/address.txt
Password: ...
C:> ssh -l me somewhere-else
me at somewhere-else:~ > ls /tmp/address.txt
/tmp/address.txt

Cheers,

-- Joe
  Using open-source software: free.
  Pissing Bill Gates off: priceless.

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