I have personally found scp infinitely easier than sftp. Been doing this a
long time now and I've never cared to invest the solid afternoon worth of
reading to really figure sftp out. 🤣

Thanks,
Alexander

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S22+

On Fri, May 6, 2022, 17:15 Phil Waclawski via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> If you are using sftp
>
> sftp -i ~/.ssh/keyfilename -P 22 user@hostname.com
>
> if you are using your default key, and you are using the default port of
> 22, you can drop the
> -i  and -P options
>
> when connected
>
> put  filename  (uploads file)
> get filename  (downloads file)
>
> cd  and ls (change directory or use ls on REMOTE machine)
> lcd  lls (change working directory and ls on YOUR machine)
>
> Phil W
>
> On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 4:59 PM Herminio Hernandez, Jr. via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> here is the syntax
>> send
>> scp file user@server:~/directory
>> rec
>> scp ser@server:~/directory file
>>
>> On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 4:52 PM joe--- via PLUG-discuss <
>> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Today, I tried to install filezilla on my linux
>>> laptop and it did not work. What is the best option?
>>>
>>> I can ssh from one of my linux laptops into another
>>> one on my home network, but I don't know the syntax
>>> to ftp from one to the other. And I don't know any
>>> other way to send to or retrieve from one to the other.
>>>
>>> I tried 'scp' but don't know the correct syntax.
>>>
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