On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Michael Havens
<bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
I was wondering.... could you do this via ipaddress?
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:01 PM,
kitepilot@kitepilot.com <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
Yes, scp (like cp) will copy back or forth, the 2 commands below are legal:
scp myuser@remotebox:/that/file /this/path
scp /this/path myuser@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'.
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joe@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?
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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
Correct,
I setup a firewall one time for an "eccentric" entrepreneur, who insisted that we use the same root password on everything, and didn't want a Bridged iptables (passthrough) with FORWARD tables, just INPUT tables (so he could run daemons and access from either side on the firewall [easy to fuzz]). This wonderfully obsessive man was also known to be a bit dyslexic and entered the scp syntax backwards (recursively sending a whole directory to the /), therefore overwrote the firewall configurations.
Be careful with the "."
So, the syntax is:
GET STUFF from OTHER BOX:
scp root@otherbox.someplacegood.com:/etc/shadow /tmp/johnhackfile
PUT STUFF from THIS BOX:
scp myfile.tgz root@otherbox.someplacegood.com:/tmp/
Get or put a whole directory:
scp -r clown@laughaminute.com:MyDir/09 ./r9/
copy directory ``MyDir/09/'' recursively (i.e., the directory
and all its contents) from
laughaminute.com (where you are
"clown" into a new directory ``r9/'' in your current
working directory on localmachine.
scp -r ./r9/ clown@laughaminute.com:MyDir/09
Copy directory ./r9 recursively (i.e. the directory and all its contents) from localmachine to
laughaminute.com using the clown users' path settings and permissions.
Sometimes a better alternative is to ssh to the remote
computer, bundle the
files you want into a single
tar file, scp that file over,
and unpack it where you want the files.
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