Copy file to / from server via SCP command
SCP uses Secure Shell (SSH) to transfer data between client and remote server, it’s fast and secure. In this article, we will show you two common SCP copying examples :
- Copying data from your computer to remote server.
- Copying data from remote server to your computer.
1. Copying data to Remote Server
Example 1.1 – Copying a file.
scp SourceFile user@server:directory/TargetFile
Copy a file “gae.log” from local computer to remote server(mkyong.com), ‘/home/mkyong/
‘ folder, via username “mkyong“.
$ scp gae.log [email protected]:/home/mkyong/
Password:
stdin: is not a tty
gae.log 100% 4193 4.1KB/s 00:00
Example 1.2 – Copying a folder, and all its content.
scp -r SourceFolder user@server:directory/TargetFolder
Copy a folder “tutorials” from local computer to server(mkyong.com), ‘/home/mkyong/
‘ folder, via username “mkyong“.
$ scp -r tutorials [email protected]:/home/mkyong/
Password:
stdin: is not a tty
aweber.txt 100% 2895 2.8KB/s 00:01
codetraining.txt 100% 330 0.3KB/s 00:00
contact.txt 100% 146 0.1KB/s 00:00
eclipse.txt 100% 5719 5.6KB/s 00:00
2. Copying data from Remote Server
Example 2.1 – Copying a file.
scp user@server:directory/SourceFile TargetFile
Copy a file “/home/mkyong/modsec_audit.log
” from remote server(mkyong.com), to local, current folder (“.
“), via username “root“.
$ scp [email protected]:/home/mkyong/modsec_audit.log .
Password:
stdin: is not a tty
modsec_audit.log 100% 244KB 122.1KB/s 00:02
Example 2.2 – Copying a folder, and all its content.
scp -r user@server:directory/SourceFolder TargetFolder
Copy a folder “/home/mkyong/mail
” from remote server(mkyong.com), to local, current folder (“.
“), via username “mkyong“.
Yongs-MacBook-Air:~ mkyong$ scp -r [email protected]:/home/mkyong/mail .
Password:
stdin: is not a tty
courierimapuiddb 100% 15 0.0KB/s 00:00
courierpop3dsizelist 100% 88 0.1KB/s 00:01
courierimapacl 100% 43 0.0KB/s 00:00
maildirsize 100% 348 0.3KB/s 00:00
If your server is using non-default SSH port 22, uses
-P portnumber
option (Uppercase P) :
scp -P 2222 user@host:directory/SourceFile TargetFile
Do you know any Java clients to do this?
Can you post how to do this in Java
Hi ,
I want to copy a file from my local windows machine to a Linux server . I executed the command ” scp SourceFile user@server:directory/TargetFile ” in my linux. But I am not able to copy a file and getting an error as
ssh: C: node name or service name not known.
can you please guide me
Thanks,
Bhaskar
Thank you very much for your great tutorial! It helped me a lot.
Finally some tut enabling me to copy my pics via scp from my phone to my computers. thx a lot 😉