scp

Scp copies files between hosts on a network. It uses ssh

for data transfer, and uses the same authentication and pro-

vides the same security as ssh. The usage is more or less like

cp with the inclusion of remote hostname in one of the

arguments. Suppose you want to copy a file remote_file in directory remote_dir from the

stat175 server to a file named new_file

your current unix directory. The command will be

lightning:~    > scp username@stat175:remote_dir/remote_file new_file

It will promt for the password of the username in the stat175 server. Once

you input the password the file transfer begins. If you want to keep the

filename same you my type

lightning:~    > scp username@stat175:remote_dir/remote_file .

You can use wild cards such as

lightning:~    > scp username@stat175:remote_dir/*.ps .

Which will copy all the files with extension '.ps'

Notice that scp van also be used to transfer file from the host server to a

remote server in the same way by swaping the arguments e.g.

lightning:~    > scp new_file username@stat175:remote_dir/remote_file