Transfer files between Unix/Linux with SCP

The scp command can be used in three ways: 1. to copy from your computer to a remote server 2. to copy from a remote server to your computer, and 3. to copy from a remote server to another remote server.

copy from your computer to a remote server:

# scp examplefile user_id@your_server:/home/user_id/

copy from a remote server to your computer

# scp user_id@your_server:/home/user_id/examplefile .

copy from a remote server to another remote server

# scp user_id1@server1:/home/user_id1/examplefile user_id2@server2:/home/user_id2/

Putting'' an entire directory


# scp -r dir1 user1@server1:/MyRsrch/dir2/

``Getting'' an entire directory


ucsu> scp -r user1@server1:dir1/09  /dir2/r9/



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