[ale] Dumb question - file transfer over SSH?

[David S. Jackson]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 11:48:55AM -0400 Charles Marcus <CharlesM at Media-Brokers.com> wrote:
> scp test.txt username at hostname:/directory/I/have/write/access/to
> 
> entered my password at prompt, then got:
> 
> test.txt: No such file or directory
> 
> What did I miss?

Let's say test.txt is in /home/you/test.txt.  You can either go

scp /home/you/test.txt you at host:.    # will copy to your $HOME

or 

cd && scp test.txt you at host:.

You can copy to another directory on host, however, as long as you have
write permission to it.  You can also copy directory trees with it using
the -r switch.


> Didn't for me - 'No manual entry for scp' is all I get.  They're on FreeBSD,
> and are have about 500 chrooted domains they are hosting, so maybe thats
> why...

Was ssh installed from ports?  Is it an older version of FreeBSD?  I
just cvsupped to stable recently and I have a man scp dated September
25, 1999 (FreeBSD 4.5).

Here's the long listing of it:

-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  1270 Apr 20 18:14
/usr/share/man/man1/scp.1.gz

Early versions may not have included it because of ITAR and so forth.

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