On Thursday 07 February 2002 02:22 pm, Federico Voges warbled:
> >Read that as I said but you need to be psychic to understand what its
> > saying as with most man pages.
> >
> >> Not-so-short answer:
> >>
> >> You don't need to ssh first.
> >>
> >> File xfer (remote to local)
> >> scp user@host:/path/source_file /local/path/[new_filename]
> >
> >Can you use a 'directory name' for remote and use -r ?
>
> Yes, you can. IIRC, if you include the last "/" (eg:
> /home/fvoges/docs/) it will create the directory:
>
> scp -r user@host:~/docs .
> will copy everything in the docs dir (recursively) to the current dir.
>
> scp -r user@host:~/docs/ .
> will create a new docs directory in the current (local) dir. The, it
> will copy everything in the docs dir (recursively) to it.
Ok thanks for the help, but the help means absolutely nothing to me.
So I have a remote site www.eastwind.com.au wherein lies a dir called 'photos'
I want to rewrite the site and put up about 650 photos; I only have ssh
access.
I ssh in and then cd to /home/webroot/eastwind/docs; at this point i can call
scp, but from that point I have had no success.
What do I use in the user@host: position my login on the remote machine and
my hostname here or what ? Sorry I have no idea what user@host: stands for.
Everytime I enter anything all I get is:
kantoine@univac:/home/webroot/eastwind/docs$ scp -r
kantoine@CPE-203-45-140-190:/photos/
usage: scp [-pqrvC46] [-S ssh] [-P port] [-c cipher] [-i identity] f1 f2; or:
scp [options] f1 ... fn directory
Until recently I have always used ftp to get to the site so ssh is a closed
book and there are NO examples out there to explain what to do. Howto and man
are useless. Lastly I am a h/w man not a software guy.
--
Keith Antoine aka 'skippy'
18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161
Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage
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