John Matthews wrote: > > > Hi Darren, > > Well see I didnt know that, and I am so glad that you have explained it. > This is something that I came across last night, whilst trying to upload > a file from my Dektop to my website using shell commands, or at least > trying to. Something that I found out after a while was that you need a > Terminal open for the Desktop and one for the Remote server. I just > could not get my Terminal to recognise that there was a file on my > desktp that needed to be transfered, kept saying no file found. This is > something that is really frustrating me that I couldnt get that to work, > which was why I asked about pc to pc help. > I suspect you were doing: $ scp /Desktop/somefile.tar usern...@server:~/
The error is that "/Desktop" isn't a valid location. You either need to use, /home/john/Desktop/somefile.tar or "~/Desktop/somefile.tar". The "~" expands automatically to your "Home", which is normally /home/john/. > I am sorry about all the questions, I think I already frightened > somebody off, which I am really sorry about if I have. :( > > John > > I'm sure you haven't!. :) Kind Regards, Dave Walker -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
