On Thursday 07 February 2002 01:35 am, Federico Voges warbled: > Keith, > > Short answer: > > man scp
Read that as I said but you need to be psychic to understand what its saying as with most man pages. > Not-so-short answer: > > You don't need to ssh first. > > File xfer (remote to local) > scp user@host:/path/source_file /local/path/[new_filename] Can you use a 'directory name' for remote and use -r ? > File xfer (localto remote) > scp /local/path/source_file user@host:/path/[new_filename] > > > You can use the -r switch to do a recursive xfer. Thanks I'll try these out > I you don't have your public key on the remote site, you'll be asked > for the password. Yes my keys are on the remote site. -- Keith Antoine aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
