Linux File Transfer (not ftp)

Matthew Benjamin msbenjamin12 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 12 18:01:53 UTC 2006


On 6/12/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 13:41 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>
> > >> Can someone recommend the "best/most efficient" way to transfer
> > >> files from one linux machine to another, without using ftp?
> > >
> > > One off:
> > > scp file user at remote_host:/path/to/file
> >
> > scp has an option to recursively copy directories to, -r.
> >
> > (Though rsync is still well worth using and learning for many
> > reasons. :)
>
> Yes, if you are going to be transferring more than one file you
> might as well do it in way you can interrupt and restart
> efficiently.  And, scp doesn't have the handy and obvious
> '-a' counterpart to gnu cp and rsync.
>
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scp worked great, thanks. (scp -r file user at remote_host:/path/tovar/file)

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mB.
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