need some help with networking on a friends

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I use scp all the time.  It just seemed to work naturally once ssh was
itself working -- scp depends on ssh.

The syntax is basically like 'cp' itself, except when you refer
to a remote location.  For one thing, you have to name the remote
host, so a command like
   scp myfile.txt user at host:
will copy the myfile.txt to user's home directory on host, and
   scp myfile.txt user at host:subdir
will copy it into a subdirectory of user's home directory.

You can omit 'user@', and scp will use the same username you're using
on the local host.  You must have the host and the colon (":") for
scp to know it's to copy to the remote host.

You can copy the other way too:
   scp user at host:hisfile.txt .

I have not had much luck using wildcards in the remote filespec.

++ kevin

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On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Marianne Taylor wrote:

> On September 3, 2002 02:28 pm, you wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 20:56, David A. Bandel wrote:
> >
> > As per usual, thanks for the soucient and informative reply. Am just
> > printing outhe article re ipchains. I will have to try scp again but last
> > time it failed, due to operator ignorance.
> 
> I have to say that I have never got scp to work either.  When you get it 
> figured out - care to share the proper syntax?
> 
> Marianne 
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