[techtalk] ssh file transfer

[David Merrill]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 02:02:59PM +0000, James Sutherland wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, David Merrill wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I know there is supposed to be a way to transfer files from one
> > computer to another once I have an ssh connection set up, but the man
> > page is very vague.
> > 
> > Can anyone give me some pointers or point me to some docs?
> 
> You want the "scp" feature (Secure CoPy). Use it like this:
> 
> scp filename.tar.gz james at bigbox:/home/james/
> 
> "man scp" will give you more information, but here's a quick summary:
> 
> scp <source> <destination>
> 
> source and destination are user at hostname:path (remote location), or just a
> filename.
> 
> One caveat: no wildcards!

I got my file transferred with scp. Thanks for the info.

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