[thelist] File transfer from/to Unix without FTP?

[Glenn Hunt]

The other thing you could do would be to FTP out from this box, back to
a server of your choice. Less elegant than scp, but more flexible, as
the FTP server could easily be your development Windows box - saves a
step.

Glenn Hunt
ghunt at hds.ca

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Simon Coggins
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 9:03 AM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] File transfer from/to Unix without FTP?
> 
> 
> 
> > I think there are ways to transfer files from/to a Unix 
> system via the 
> > command line. Can anybody tell me anything about those?
> 
> For Unix to Unix transfers you can use scp (secure copy). The 
> syntax is:
> 
> scp user at host:/path/to/file user at host:/path/to/copy/to
> 
> There are various additional flags you can use too. You will 
> need ssh installed on both machines. Type man scp for more 
> information.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Simon
> 
> 
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