topic Re: Cannot scp files to another server in Operating System - HP-UX

Cannot scp files to another server

Fenglin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:22:16 GMT

Hi

I want to scp some files to another server

ssh: Could not resolve hostname audfile2_2006Sep30_12: no address associated with name

I am able to ping to the other server but I encounter the error above while scp the files.The hosts file looks ok.

Source directory : HP-UX server
Target directory : Linux server

Please advice.

Regards
Feng Lin

Re: Cannot scp files to another server

Steven Schweda — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:54:45 GMT

> The hosts file looks ok.

Great, but I can't see it, and I don't trust
you. I also can't see your "scp" command.

> ssh: Could not resolve hostname
> audfile2_2006Sep30_12: no address
> associated with name

"scp" seems to think that that's a host name.
If you thought that that was a file name,
then I'd guess that your "scp" command is
defective. Perhaps if my psychic powers
were stronger, then I might not need to
guess. Or, if you showed what you actually
did, ...

"scp -h"? "man scp"?

> Source directory : HP-UX server
> Target directory : Linux server

Not very complete descriptions of these
systems, or their software, either.

Re: Cannot scp files to another server

Kapil Jha — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:10:29 GMT

which is ur target host

nslookup is fine?? try with IP....

#scp file username@IP:/path_to_put
this should ask for passwd....
if any error try doing normal ssh is thats working.

BR
Kapil+

Re: Cannot scp files to another server

Yogesh M Puranik — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:10:31 GMT

Hi Fenglin,

Your check points:

1]Make sure that you should ve host entry both server in /etc/hosts.

2]Please check ssh is working properly.

3]check traceroute between source and destination ,as well as telnet with 22 port is working properly.

Rgds
++
YMP

Re: Cannot scp files to another server

Fenglin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:36:27 GMT

Hi

It's because the files that I want to transfer contain semi-colons. The filenames are for e.g filename_date_12_00:00.txt

That's why it complained about the hostnames.

Any idea how to replace the semi-colon by an underscore for selected files in that directory?

Thanks a lot.

Feng Lin

Re: Cannot scp files to another server

Steven Schweda — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:12:22 GMT

> It's because the files that I want to
> transfer contain semi-colons.

Why didn't I guess that?

> The filenames are for e.g
> filename_date_12_00:00.txt

I don't see a semi-colon anywhere in that
name.

Normally, one can quote (using apostrophes or
quotation marks) or escape (using
backslashes) any shell-special characters in
a file name. I might be able to show you
how to do this in your command, but I'm still
not psychic, and you still haven't shown your
command.

> [...] I also can't see your "scp" command.

Did you not read this? Did you think I was
joking? Are you trying to waste everyone's
time? Is there something secret about your
"scp" command, and you're afraid of the CIA?

> Any idea how to replace the semi-colon by
> an underscore for selected files in that
> directory?

bash$ echo 'a;b;c' | sed -e 's/;/_/g'
a_b_c

But I don't really know what you're trying to
do, so I don't know how you might use this
method.

Re: Cannot scp files to another server

SANTOSH S. MHASKAR — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:14:44 GMT

Hi,

Still u have not given the command u r using.

Also if u have embedded special chars. in file name just put the file name in single quotes.

eg. ''
eg. 'adfd###????!!!!;;;;::::>>>'

Pl. give the syntax u are using. So that we can help u.

-Santosh

Re: Cannot scp files to another server

Fenglin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:31:52 GMT

Hi All

ok, Let's say I have a lot of files with naming convention, filename_2006Mar27_12:00.gz in a specific directory. I want to change all the files in that directory from filename_2006Mar27_12:00.gz to filename_2006Mar27_12_00.gz (That is an example)

Regarding the scp issue, its been resolved because once I replace the : with _ , I will be able to scp to the linux server. I tested and it worked.

Thanks
Feng Lin

Re: Cannot scp files to another server

Steven Schweda — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:13:59 GMT

> ok, Let's say I have a lot of files with
> naming convention,
> filename_2006Mar27_12:00.gz in a specific
> directory. I want to change all the files
> in that directory from
> filename_2006Mar27_12:00.gz to
> filename_2006Mar27_12_00.gz (That is an
> example)

You may think that that's clear, but it's
not. For example:

Do you want to rename all the files in that
directory with ":" in the name?

Do you want to rename all the files in that
directory with "_2006Mar27_" and ":" in the
name?

I'd probably write a short shell script which
uses "sed" to transform a file name (as shown
above), and then uses "mv" to rename the
file. Then I might use "find -exec" to run
that shell script against the file names
which "find" finds. This assumes that I knew
which file names to ask "find" to find, which
I don't.

Re: Cannot scp files to another server

Mel Burslan — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:14:16 GMT

for file in `ls -1 filename_*`
do
newname=`echo ${file} | sed -e "1,1s/:/_/"`
mv ${file} ${newname}
done

this will rename all files suiting the naming convention you gave. If they have more than one colon ":" in the name, only the first one will be replaced by and underscore"_". If you have more than one colon and replace all of them, then modify the sed directive between double quotes as follows:
"1,1s/:/_/g"
note the "g" at the end

Hope this helps

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