Linux – Using scp to transfer a .txt file list of files

I whould solve the problem with tar and the pipe-transparency of ssh. An example can be seen below, the remote PC is named bar. Before the test, I created three empty files in /tmp/foo by executing ssh bar 'mkdir /tmp/foo ; touch /tmp/foo/{a,b,c}'.

$ ssh bar 'cd /tmp/foo ; ls | sort -r | tar -cT -' | tar -xv
c
b
a
$ ls -l a b c
-rw-r--r-- 1 dnet dnet 0 nov   29 17:07 a
-rw-r--r-- 1 dnet dnet 0 nov   29 17:07 b
-rw-r--r-- 1 dnet dnet 0 nov   29 17:07 c

The -T flag of tar makes it read filenames to pack from the next parameter, and - means the standard input. Now you just need to pipe the name of the files into it, which can come from ls (as in the example) or find for trickier tasks. With this setup, you can use sort to indicate the exact order the files will be transmitted through SSH (in this case, -r sorted files in reverse alphabetic order). The -v is only added to the final, unpacking tar, so that the order is visible.

I think you have a lot of misguided thoughts here.

First... Winscp uses native ssh to copy files. It does nothing different than the linux command scp. There is no way scp will work... when winscp does not. winscp is a windows interface that uses a basic scp client to connect to a ssh server to copy files.

Second... In Linux-based OSes, there is no concept of a "C drive". You have the root (/) and directories under root. A block device is mounted to root, and various other block devices can be mounted to directories that fall under root.

The syntax for "scp" is as follows:

scp from_where to_where

Both the from and to can be local directories like /some/local/directory or a remote directory like user@some.server:/some/remote/directory

the -r just means to "recurse" directories. (copy everything from that directory and everything beneath it.)

in a windows environment with a "C drive" typically you'd use putty's pscp command and do something like this:

pscp -r c:\some\directory username@some.server:/some/path/to/where/you/want/it