Hi, Eekers, thanks for the catch :) /me is used to writing to actual dir's after so just assumed it would right to ~ in that case. -- Thanks and best regards, Ryan Rix TamsPalm - The PalmOS Blog I don't want to touch you too much baby, 'cause making love to you might drive me crazy On Wed October 22 2008 04:16:47 pm kitepilot@kitepilot.com wrote: > This is true but, > Just a note: > > scp *.jpg user@kitchen > > Will copy all the files ending in .jpg to a directory named user@kitchen in > THIS machine, if it exists, or it will abort with an error. > > If you want to remote-copy, it has to have a colon : > > scp *.jpg user@kitchen: > or > scp *.jpg user@kitchen:~ > ET > > PS: been bitten with that one before... > > Ryan Rix writes: > >> inet 192.168.1.66/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0 > > > > Yes, it's the first number after inet. > > > >> inet 192.168.1.64/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0 > > > > again, first after inet. > > > > What I personally would do, though it's a bit of a pain to set up, is if > > your router supports DHCP reservations (dlink G router does here) you can > > give each compy a 'static' dhcp address. > > > > After you have them all rounded up you can add entries to /etc/hosts > > 192.168.1.66 bedroom > > 192.168.1.64 kitchen > > and such, till you're done on all the boxen > > > > then do /etc/init.d/networking restart > > and now you can refer to your targets as 'kitchen' or 'bedroom' or > > whatnot. > > > > scp *.jpg user@kitchen > > > > Note that if the username you are logged into on the source computer is > > the same as your target's username it can be safely dropped, and it's > > implied. > > > > -- > > Thanks and best regards, > > Ryan Rix > > TamsPalm - The PalmOS Blog > > > > My heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain: IBM > > > > On Wed October 22 2008 03:23:09 pm Josef Lowder wrote: > >> On 10/22/08, enrique wrote: > >> > Linux: Open up a terminal and type: > >> > ip addr show > >> > and choose the adapter that connects to the network you want. > >> > > >> > use scp as: > >> > scp /file/to/copy user@machine:/copy/file/to > >> > > >> > It's easy, even I can do it. > >> > >> Thanks Enrique ... but the problem is ... you are brilliant > >> and I guess I just don't have all the wires connected. > >> > >> I did find that I have to use /sbin/ip addr show > >> since 'ip' was not found. > >> > >> But below are the results I got from my two linux boxes, > >> and I can't figure out which of all these different number > >> sets is the 'ip' number for each machine. > >> > >> == from machine "A" > >> $ /sbin/ip addr show > >> 1: lo: mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue > >> link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 > >> inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo > >> 2: eth0: mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000 > >> link/ether 00:11:2f:06:65:08 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > >> inet 192.168.1.64/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0 > >> > >> == from machine "B" > >> $ /sbin/ip addr show > >> 1: lo: mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue > >> link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 > >> inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo > >> 2: eth0: mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen > >> 1000 link/ether 00:14:85:1e:5f:5e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > >> inet 192.168.1.66/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0 > >> > >> Furthermore, from your excellent example (thank you very much), > >> scp /file/to/copy user@machine:/copy/file/to > >> > >> I still do not understand how to put which numbers where, > >> and how the actual syntax should look. Is it like this: > >> > >> scp /filenameA.txt/to/copy joe@12.34.56:/copy/filenameB.txt/to > >> > >> How would scp know in what directory or folder to put the file > >> to be copied? > >> --------------------------------------------------- > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss