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===== SCP : Secure file transfer over the network ===== SCP, for Secure CoPy, is an SSH based software that allows you to copy files between UNIX/Linux machines. It is included in OpenSSH and the SSH daemon on all mayor Linux & *BSD distributions, listening on port 22 by default. ==== Usage ==== SCP works like the well known command "cp", by adding the required network information (IP, FQDN). scp /my/file.txt myuser@re.mo.te.ip:~ This will copy the file "file.txt" in the home folder of the user "myuser" to the remote server. It is also possible to use it the inverse way: scp myuser@re.mo.te.ip:~/file.txt /my/ This will copy the remote file to the local disk. ==== Recursion ==== SCP allows to do recursive copies. Basically this means to copy all its content instead of launch the copy file by file. Below an example: scp -r /my myuser@re.mo.te.ip:~ We will now find the directory "my" available in the remote home folder. As previously seen, this works also the inverse way: scp -r myuser@re.mo.te.ip:~/my / If you are interested in more information, feel free to read the manpage of scp. It offers a lot of other functionalities: man (1) scp
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