What’s the most pythonic way to scp a file in Python? The only route I’m aware of is which is a hack, and which doesn’t work outside Linux-like systems, and which needs help from the Pexpect module to avoid password prompts unless you already have passwordless SSH set up to the remote host. I’m aware … Read more
Looks like you are trying to copy to a local machine with that command. An example scp looks more like the command below: Copy the file “foobar.txt” from the local host to a remote host scp “the_file” your_username@the_remote_host:the/path/to/the/directory to send a directory: Copy the directory “foo” from the local host to a remote host’s directory … Read more
The major difference between these tools is how they copy files. scp basically reads the source file and writes it to the destination. It performs a plain linear copy, locally, or over a network. rsync also copies files locally or over a network. But it employs a special delta transfer algorithm and a few optimizations to make the operation … Read more
I have a problem when using scp on Linux, it says “not a regular file”. I looked at other questions/answers about that, but I can’t find out what’s wrong… I wrote: to copy file.fits from aa@aa, /home/pictures to the current directory. I also tried without using /home/, but it didn’t work neither… Do you understand what’s wrong?
You can script it with a tool like expect (there are handy bindings too, like Pexpect for Python).
You need to tell scp where to send the file. In your command that is not working: You have not mentioned a remote server. scp uses : to delimit the host and path, so it thinks you have asked it to download a file at the path \Users\Admin\Desktop\WMU\5260\A2.c from the host C to your local home directory. The correct upload command, based on your comments, … Read more
I’d like to copy files from/to remote server in different directories. For example, I want to run these 4 commands at once. What is the easiest way to do that?
If your drive letter is C, you should be able to use scp -r \desktop\myfolder\deployments\ user@host:/path/to/whereyouwant/thefile without drive letter and backslashes instead of forward slashes. You are using putty, so you can use pscp. It is better adapted to Windows.
I’d like to copy files from/to remote server in different directories. For example, I want to run these 4 commands at once. What is the easiest way to do that?
By not including the trailing ‘/’ at the end of foo, you will copy the directory itself (including contents), rather than only the contents of the directory. From man scp (See online manual) -r Recursively copy entire directories