What’s the most pythonic way to scp a file in Python? The only route I’m aware of is os.system(‘scp “%s” “%s:%s”‘ % (localfile, remotehost, remotefile) ) 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 … Read more
Closed. This question does not meet Stack Overflow guidelines. It is not currently accepting answers. We don’t allow questions about general computing hardware and software on Stack Overflow. You can edit the question so it’s on-topic for Stack Overflow. Closed 7 years ago. Improve this question I love WinSCP for Windows. What is the best … Read more
I am trying to use my Mac Terminal to scp a file from Downloads (phpMyAdmin I downloaded online) to my Amazon EC2 instance. The command I used was: scp -i myAmazonKey.pem phpMyAdmin-3.4.5-all-languages.tar.gz [email protected]:~/. The error I got: Warning: Identity file myAmazonKey.pem not accessible: No such file or directory. Permission denied (publickey). lost connection Both my … Read more
An article about setting up Ghost blogging says to use scp to copy from my local machine to a remote server: scp -r ghost-0.3 root@*your-server-ip*:~/ However, Railscast 339: Chef Solo Basics uses scp to copy in the opposite direction (from the remote server to the local machine): scp -r [email protected]:/var/chef . In the same Railscast, … Read more
I know it is not recommended, but is it at all possible to pass the user’s password to scp? I’d like to copy a file via scp as part of a batch job and the receiving server does, of course, need a password and, no, I cannot easily change that to key-based authentication. 20 Answers … Read more
I’m new to linux, I want to copy a file from remote to local system… now I’m using scp command in linux system.. I have some folders or files names are with spaces, when I try to copy that file, it shows the error message: “No such file or directory” I tried: scp [email protected]:’/home/5105/test/gg/Untitled Folder/a/qy.jpg’ … 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. scp remote:A/1.txt local:A/1.txt scp remote:A/2.txt local:A/2.txt scp remote:B/1.txt local:B/1.txt scp remote:C/1.txt local:C/1.txt What is the easiest way to do that? 18 Answers 18
I have an EC2 instance running (FreeBSD 9 AMI ami-8cce3fe5), and I can ssh into it using my amazon-created key file without password prompt, no problem. However, when I want to copy a file to the instance using scp I am asked to enter a password: scp somefile.txt -i mykey.pem [email protected]:/ Password: Any ideas why … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Stack Overflow. Closed 10 years ago. Improve this question I’m SSHing into a remote server on the command line, and trying to copy a directory onto my local machine with the scp … Read more
I’m trying to scp a file from a remote server to my local machine. Only port 80 is accessible. I tried: scp -p 80 [email protected]:/root/file.txt . but got this error: cp: 80: No such file or directory How do I specify the port number in a scp command? 13 s 13 Unlike ssh, scp uses … Read more
