[olug] Unix Tip: FTY AUTOMATED TRANSFERS

[Dave Hull]

On 13 May 2003, Andrew Holm-Hansen wrote:

> scp will do this (in fewer steps no less).
> 
> scp sourceFile username at targetComputer:/path/to/destination/
> 
> Or, for a full directory transfer:
> 
> scp -r sourceDirectory username at targetComputer:/path/to/destination/
> 
> enter your password.  enjoy a beverage.
> 
> scp is the Secure Copy utility provided in the OpenSSL packages (I
> think... er... could be wrong here).  It can do a bunch more stuff too. 

I think scp is part of ssh, but I could be wrong.

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