[wellylug] Ssh cp question

[Lyndsay Mountfort]

Andrew Presant wrote:

>Basic question for you:
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>I'm trying to figure out how to copy a file/directory from one box to
>another.
>I understand cp /path/to/file /path/to/destination but how do you do it
>across a network with ssh?
>
the command is scp

scp [username at origin-ip-or-network-name:]/path/to/file 
[username at destination-ip-or-network-name:]/path/to/destination

username and ip or network name is not required for localhost.

Lyndsay

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>Cheers
>Andrew
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