SCP

Syntax

scp [OPTION] [user@]SRC:]file1 [user@]DEST:]file2

where is

• OPTION – options which accept the command: ssh configuration, recursively, etc

• SRC – is a source source host

• DEST – is a destination host

SCP copy local file to remote system

SCP copy local file to remote with output path

scp /mnt/test/test.txt [email protected]:/home/ubuntu/test_folder/myfile.txt

This command will copy test.txt to the remote file, you could provide another name filename for remote system

SCP copy local file under remote folder

scp /mnt/test/test.txt [email protected]:/home/ubuntu/test_folder

This command will copy the test.txt under the test_folder on remote machine with the same filename as original

SCP copy local folder to remote folder

scp /mnt/test [email protected]:/home/ubuntu/test_folder

All files from /mnt/test will be copied recursively under the test_folder

SCP copy remote file to local system

scp [email protected]:/home/ubuntu/test_folder/myfile.txt /mnt/test/remote_file.txt

SCP copy files between two remote systems

scp [email protected]:/opt/my_folder/test.txt [email protected]:/home/ubuntu/myfile.txt

SCP options

• -r – copy recursively

• -P – specifying the SSH port (default: 22)