The Linux SCP command can be used to copy data between computers in a network. We introduce the command, give examples, and inform you about alternatives.
At first glance, using scp might seem a bit confusing, but it's really not. I'm going to show you how it's done, so you can push and pull files from one Linux machine to another. What you'll need:To do this, all you'll need are two Linux machines. It doesn't matter what d...
/path/to/local/directory In the example below, I am copying the file latest.tar.gz from the remote system to the home directory of my local Linux PC.$ scp james@192.168.2.102:/home/james/latest.tar.gz/home/winnie To copy a directory from the remote system to the local system, use th...
OnRed Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL), SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) and SCP (secure copy) are handy commands to move files between systems securely. As part of the OpenSSH suite, these tools rely onSecure Shell (SSH)to transfer the files. This means they use the same authentication and...
Thecpcommand does not support copying files from remote servers directly. Instead, you can use tools likescporrsyncto copy files between remote servers. We hope that this blog post has provided you with a solid understanding of thecpcommand in Linux and its various options. With this knowledge...
A Linux Operating System: You can use curl on all popular OS. However, we’ll use Linux in this tutorial. Terminal Access: You need access to a command-line interface or terminal to execute the curl commands. curl installed and ready: Not every Linux distro comes preloaded with curl. If...
sftpis pretty much what it sounds like: Secure FTP. It acts like FTP over an SSH-managed connection. While it's not as simple to use as the "one and done"scpcommand, it offers a range of more sophisticated filesystem options and the ability to connect to a remote filesystem interactive...
you’d normally use a web browser to make this sort of connection, let’s take just one step up from telnet and use a command-line program that knows how to speak to the HTTP application layer. We’ll use the curl utility with a special option to record details about its communication...
Network: Use thescpcommand to copy the local file to a remote system. Raw # scp /mnt/sysimage/var/tmp/sosreport username@hostname:sosreport USB drive: Using a preformatted USB drive (in the following example the whole USB drive has been formatted with an ext3 filesystem), plug the drive...
If you need to do this sort of thing regularly (and especially if you plan to automate the process), use a dedicated synchronizer system. On Linux, rsync is the standard synchronizer, offering good performance and many useful ways to perform transfers. We’ll cover some of the essential rsyn...