How to transfer a file over ssh from one machine to another

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My professor wants us to email him source files, but he wants us to edit over ssh using vi. How do I transfer a file over ssh from one machine to another?

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To transfer a file over ssh you should use the scp command.

Basic usage is :

[you@localhost ~]$ scp examplefile yourusername@remoteserver:/home/yourusername/

It will copy over SSH the file examplefile to the remote server at the location /home/yourusername/examplefile

More concrete example :

[Moshe@localhost ~/mywork]$ scp thework.zip Moshe@192.168.1.21:/home/Moshe/

Where it is assumed your local file is /home/Moshe/mywork/thework.zip and you have permission to login to the server 192.168.1.21 and to write in the remote directory /home/Moshe

You will end with the file copied under /home/Moshe/thework.zip on the remote server.

If you are not working under Linux or any Unix-based system locally (ie. you're on Windows typically), a tool like WinSCP will enable you to transfer the file over SSH with help of a graphical interface.

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Yes, you can use scp , which basically cp over ssh. It can work either way also, so:

scp ~/Document/Localfile remoteuser@remotemachine:~/Desktop

scp remoteuser@remotemachine:~/Destkop/remotefile ~/Desktop

The first command would copy a file to the remote machine, the second would copy a file from the remote to the local. The syntax is <user>@<machine or ip>:<file> you can do a man scp for more switches and options

How to transfer files over ssh while already ssh’d into the server

Nice question. scp again, but the opposite way. I did it and here it is:

chris@local ~$ ls hos*
hosts
chris@local ~$ ssh remote
Last login: Fri Mar  8 15:52:25 2013 from local
chris@remote ~$ scp chris@local:hos* .
chris@local's password: 
hosts                                              100% 1850     1.8KB/s   00:00    
chris@remote ~$ ls hos*
hosts
chris@remote ~$

edited to add: as pointed out in the comments, this requires that the remote computer can access the local computer. And sshd or (openssh-server) needs to be installed and running on the local machine.

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