How to transfer files between computers on a network

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

This is true but,
Just a note: 

scp *.jpg user at kitchen 

Will copy all the files ending in .jpg to a directory named user at 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 at kitchen:
or
scp *.jpg user at 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 at 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 <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?
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