correct scp syntax

[Ragni Singh]

I am currently on my system. I need to scp from another system as a different user a file to my system as such and am having issue.

What am I doing wrong here.

snort>scp user@xxx.xx.xx.x:test xxx.xx.xx.xx:/home/user.

I know if I am on snort now and I want to scp something to another host, I do the following..

snort> scp test 172.24.10.0:/home/user.

What about if I want to scp from another host as a different user?

Thanks and points will be assigned.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Sanjit,

I'm on snort. The server, not the drug.

I am logged in as user schmo.

I want to log into or scp (the syntax is the same) server bagel as user user2

snort>scp /usr/local/files/* user2@bagel:/targetdir

There is no way I know around a password prompt here but this command will copy files from snort to bagel and log in as user user2. It is up to you as the administrator to make sure user schmo on server snort has rights to write files to the target directory on server bagel.

SEP

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Sanjit,

I'm on snort. The server, not the drug.

I am logged in as user schmo.

I want to log into or scp (the syntax is the same) server bagel as user user2

snort>scp /usr/local/files/* user2@bagel:/targetdir

There is no way I know around a password prompt here but this command will copy files from snort to bagel and log in as user user2. It is up to you as the administrator to make sure user schmo on server snort has rights to write files to the target directory on server bagel.

The hostnames bagel can be replaced with a numeric ip address. You don't need to specify the ip address of the local system.

I've never tried to use scp to go from two remote servers. Sounds like an interesting experiment though.

SEP

[Ivan Ferreira]

The general syntax is:

localfile from server1 to server2

server1> scp /path/to/localfile user@server2:/path/to/destination

remotefile from server2 to server1
server1> scp user@server2:/path/to/remotefile /path/to/localdir

[Muthukumar_5]

You have to give user and hostname or ip-address information to remote machine only.

Copying remote file to local machine:

scp remote-user@:/location /local location

scp root@172.19.0.1:/tmp/* /tmp/test/

Copying local file to remote machine:

scp /tmp/test/* root@172.19.0.1

No need to use user with hostname or ip-address to localmachine since it is known.

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Muthu

[Indrajit_1]

Hi;

Try this

#scp file_name user_name@host.domain.com:/export/home(path)


cheers
indrajit