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On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, Neil Winchurst wrote:
I know that SSH stands for secure shell, but that is as far as it goes. The answers to my query have made me realise that there is a lot still to learn. I will be looking into this, even if I don't use it to transfer the files.
If you have 2 Linux PCs on the same LAN (or even different LANs as long as they can route to each other)... Then:
scp user@otherPc:/path/to/file . even if they just have IP addresses: scp gordon@xxxxxxxxxxx:file.txt .will copy the file "file.txt" on the PC with IP address 192.168.1.2 to your local PC. You can push as well as pull:
scp filehere.txt gordon@xxxxxxxxxxx: Remember the colon. You can also do recursive copys: scp -r gordon@xxxxxxxxxxx:/path/to/dir/ localdir/ will do a recursive copy.Then only requirement is knowing the username and password on the remote PC.
scp is great for one or 2 files or a whole directory, but when you want to do more, then you need to look into rsync - which uses scp under the bonnet.
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