I'm connecting from a Linux server (Machine 1) to another Linux server (Machine 2) using PuTTY.
Using WinSCP, I have copied a zip file from my hard disk in Windows to the Machine 1's home directory.
How can I copy this zip file from the Machine 1 to the Machine 2's build/test_builds directory?
25 Answers
scp sourcefile ssh://[user]@[hostname]/[destination path]I think this should work with every linux box with ssh enabled, maybe you'll need to enable secure copy (scp)
A better way to write this can be:
scp source destinationsource and destination can be:
absolute or relative path to file (eg.
/tmp/foo.txtor./foo.txt)ssh file path (in the form ssh://[user]@[machine]/[path]
You can also perform copies between machine1 and machine2, while being on machine3 (given that you've got access - eg. a logon to each machine) via:
scp ssh://user@machine1/path ssh://user@machine2/pathHope this helps.
3As per man I have changed the scp command as follows and it has worked for me.
scp user@sourceservername:sourcefilepath user@destservername:destdirectoryHope this will help someone.
rsync -r --progress SRC DSTworks also nice: retransfer, progress-bar
To transfer between two linux boxes use scp like the above user suggested. His syntax is a little off for ssh though. With scp the format is
scp [options] source destination
Which is available in the man pages man scp
for you the syntax from machine 1 is
scp /path/to/file.zip .2:port/path/to/destination/dir/
port default is 22
3rsync -aPv --update /path/to/desire/file /path/to/destination/same_name_as_file-a — archive mode, a combination of several other rsync options that is useful for backing up-P — same as --partial --progress-v — --verbose
