Instead of hardcoding password in a shell script, use SSH keys, its easier and secure. $ scp -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa *.derp devops@myserver.org:/path/to/target/directory/ assuming your private key is at ~/.ssh/id_rsa and the files you want to send can be filtered with *.derp To generate a public / private key pair : $ ssh-keygen -t rsa The above … Read more
I don’t know of any way to copy the file directly in one single command, but if you can concede to running an SSH instance in the background to just keep a port forwarding tunnel open, then you could copy the file in one command. Like this: # First, open the tunnel ssh -L 1234:remote2:22 … Read more
Although scp supports recursive directory copying with the -r option, it does not support filtering of the files. There are several ways to accomplish your task, but I would probably rely on find, xargs, tar, and ssh instead of scp. find . -type d -wholename ‘*bench*/image’ \ | xargs tar cf – \ | ssh … Read more
If your drive letter is C, you should be able to use scp -r \desktop\myfolder\deployments\ user@host:/path/to/whereyouwant/thefile without drive letter and backslashes instead of forward slashes. You are using putty, so you can use pscp. It is better adapted to Windows.
At first, you need to add : after the IP address to indicate the path is following: scp magento.tar.gz user@xx.x.x.xx:/var/www I don’t think you need to sudo the scp. In this case it doesn’t affect the remote machine, only the local command. Then if your user@xx.x.x.xx doesn’t have write access to /var/www then you need … Read more
I’d probably recommend using something like rsync for this due to its include and exclude flags, e.g:- rsync -rav -e ssh –include ‘*/’ –include=”*.class” –exclude=”*” \ server:/usr/some/unknown/number/of/sub/folders/ \ /usr/project/backup/some/unknown/number/of/sub/folders/ Some other useful flags: -r for recursive -a for archive (mostly all files) -v for verbose output -e to specify ssh instead of the default (which … Read more
This is probably not a direct answer to what you’re asking, but when I need to transfer files over a SSH session I use WinSCP, which is an excellent file transfer program over SCP or SFTP. Of course this assumes you’re on Windows.
Update Sep 2017 – tl;dr Download a single file from a remote ftp server to your machine: sftp {user}@{host}:{remoteFileName} {localFileName} Upload a single file from your machine to a remote ftp server: sftp {user}@{host}:{remote_dir} <<< $’put {local_file_path}’ Original answer: Ok, so I feel a little dumb. But I figured it out. I almost had it … Read more
This one worked for me. scp /home/ubuntu/myfile username@IP_of_windows_machine:/C:/Users/Anshul/Desktop
To do this in Python (i.e. not wrapping scp through subprocess.Popen or similar) with the Paramiko library, you would do something like this: import os import paramiko ssh = paramiko.SSHClient() ssh.load_host_keys(os.path.expanduser(os.path.join(“~”, “.ssh”, “known_hosts”))) ssh.connect(server, username=username, password=password) sftp = ssh.open_sftp() sftp.put(localpath, remotepath) sftp.close() ssh.close() (You would probably want to deal with unknown hosts, errors, creating any … Read more