Linux – copy file from one Linux machine to another in a intranet

linuxscp

I used the command:

scp filename.c user@172.100.102.187:/user/pradeep

Here I want to copy file to 172.100.102.187 in /user/pradeep but it gives a
error:

scp: /user/pradeep: No such file or directory

What is the command to copy a file from one system to another?

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The command you used is fine.

The problem is that on the machine 172.100.102.187, the directory /user/pradeep does not exist. Are you sure it isn't /home/pradeep or some other name?

Assuming you actually do have that directory on that machine, the problem that might be afflicting you could be 'automounted NFS home directory'. That is, if the home directory is automounted when you login, it could be that scp does not trigger that mount operation, and therefore your home directory appears to be missing. I'm not sure whether this is still a problem - it used to afflict me periodically a decade ago.

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did you check that direct authentication works from first remote host to the second one?

scp user@host:/file user@otherhost:/otherfile is shorthand for

ssh user@host scp /file user@otherhost:/otherfile

which leeds me to think:

ssh -p XXX user@host scp -P XXX /file user@otherhost:/otherfile might work.

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First of all, you don't need the -r flag which is (from man cp):

-R, -r, --recursive
copy directories recursively

That is only useful when copying entire directories and their contents. Then, whenever your file names contain strange characters, you need to either escape them or protect them with single quotes as the other answers have already suggested:

cp '$somefile.class' /folder2
cp \$somefile.class /folder2

Alternatively, you can use the shell's glob expansion feature to copy the file:

cp ?somefile.class /folder2
cp *somefile.class /folder2

The ? matches "any single character" and * matches "0 or more characters". So, using these globs will allow you to copy the target file without worrying about the name. However, bear in mind that you should use this carefully and make sure that the globs only match the file you want to copy. For example, the ones I used would also match Lsomefile.class.

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