17 Mar 09 Copy files securely from host to host with SCP

SCP is a really handy utility for copying files to or from your machine to another host over SSH.

Usage:

scp /tmp/myfile user@otherhost:/tmp/
Will send /tmp/myfile over to /tmp/ on otherhost

scp user@otherhost:/etc/passwd ~/
Will copy /etc/passwd from otherhost to my home directory (~/)

Like everything in Linux, it’s that easy

As SCP uses SSH as it’s transport, key authentication will allow a passwordless login.

Tags: key authentication, scp, ssh

Reader's Comments

1. dellz | 28 Mar 2009 11:59 pm

   dose this work on Ubuntu Server 8.10 ?

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