need some help with networking on a friends
Keith Antoine
kantoine
Mon May 17 11:37:12 PDT 2004
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:26, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
r> 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
I have to "SEE" things nowadays, so do me a favour:
If your had ssh access to my machine which is on bigpond.net.au
and user kantoine, what command would you type in, please.
--
Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy'
18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161
Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage
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