How to transfer files between computers on a network

[Josef Lowder]

On 10/22/08, enrique <kitepilot at kitepilot.com> 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 at 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: <LOOPBACK,UP> 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: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> 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: <LOOPBACK,UP,10000> 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: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,10000> 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 at 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 at 12.34.56:/copy/filenameB.txt/to

How would scp know in what directory or folder to put the file
to be copied?