scp in reverse?

[Michael Havens]

thanks.

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:32 AM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com <
kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:

> You can't get anywhere without a username:
> ssh <username>@<IP address>
> ET
>
>
> Michael Havens writes:
>
>> well... yeah. I knew that. I was really asking how one did that. I mean
>> like do you drop the user name and it would be '<source_ip>:thatfile this
>> file' or 'thisfile <destination_ip>:that file'.
>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:25 AM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com <
>> kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Michael, "names" on a network are fake.
>>> There are only IP address in a network .
>>> You "translate a name" into its corresponding IP address via a "name
>>> resolution service"
>>> A "name resolution service" can be as simple as an /etc/hosts file or as
>>> complex as a full blown self-replicating/redundant name server (like
>>> bind).
>>> At the end, EVERYTHING goes via an IP address, so your question might
>>> actually work in reverse:
>>>
>>>> I was wondering.... could you do this via NAMEs?
>>>>
>>> Yes, assuming that the name can be translated via some "name resolution
>>> service"
>>> ET
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Michael Havens writes:
>>>
>>>> I was wondering.... could you do this via ipaddress?
>>>> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:01 PM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com <
>>>> kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yes, scp (like cp) will copy back or forth, the 2 commands below are
>>>>> legal:
>>>>> scp myuser at remotebox:/that/file /this/path
>>>>> scp /this/path myuser at remotebox:/that/file
>>>>> 1st one will 'retrieve' /that/file from 'remotebox' into /this/path
>>>>> 2nd one will copy /this/path to /that/file in 'remotebox'.
>>>>> ET
>>>>> joe at actionline.com writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is interesting.  Does this really mean that
>>>>>> scp in reverse is possible by using a similar syntax
>>>>>> with the dot at the end to extract a file from a remote
>>>>>> computer to my local computer?
>>>>>> -----------------
>>>>>> Mike Ballon wrote (in part) ... scp in reverse:
>>>>>> scp 192.168.0.4:Pictures/2009-******Move.from.Florida .
>>>>>> I'm guessing the path of the pictures and take note of the dot at the
>>>>>> end
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