Hi Samuel!
09 Feb 2003, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
SH> Usage: scpdos [options] from to
SH> from <username@remotehost:remotefile|localfile>
SH> to <username@remotehost:remotefile|localfile>
SH> This syntax explanation makes no sense to me.
scp from to
scp a b will copy file a to file b (locally)
just like cp a b (aeh copy a b in dos)
And now for the interesting part ... remote files:
scp localfile sam@remotehost:remotefile
so for example scp sam.html sam@webserver:/var/www/html/sam/index.html
will copy the local file sam.html to the computer webserver into the dir
/var....
ATTENTION ... there is a ":" between host and remotefile !!!
to get a remote file you switch the arguments (eg from is now remote)
scp root@sshserver:~sam/arachne.txt
SH> from <username@remotehost:remotefile|localfile>
this really says it all.
from can either be a localfile (like c:\dos\arachne.txt ,../arachne.txt or ...
or a remotefile <user>@<host>:<file>
one pitfall <file> is mandatory.
so to copy a file under the same name into the default dir you have to give a .
as file argument (. == current dir)
so to copy a file to your home:
scp file.txt sam@host:.
SH> Sam Heywood
CU, Ricsi
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