scp I have success at last but!

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 07:47:11 +1000
Keith Antoine <kantoine at bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> I have managed to get scp working at last, it was asking for a password 
> after I had called scp and told it what file I wanted. Took weeks for me
> to find out that the password it wanted was my login password ion this
> machine. Never thought of that and no one mentioned it <grin>.
> 
> But now:
> root at univac:/home/webroot/eastwind/docs# scp -r business
> kantoine at 203.45.xxx.xxx/website: cp: cannot create directory
> `kantoine at 203.45.xxx.xxx/website:': No such file or directory

I think you want this;
	
	scp -r business kantoine at 203.45.xxx.xxx:website

The dest machine and dest directory are separated by a ':'. If there is no
initial '/' in the dest directory name, then it is considered to be in the
user's HOME.

It will expect to put it in /home/kantoine/website on machine 203.45.xxx.xxx

I usually include the -p option as well to make the perms on the remote
match what the source has.

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