I have Ubuntu 10.04 running through VMPlayer. And I have another machine (Asus RT-N16 router). I am able to connect to the router with telnet and see its file system. How can I copy the file from the local machine (file is /home/user/helloworld-c) to the router (folder */tmp/mnt/discb_1*)?
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Is there possibility to connect via SSH? Maybe you should consider "scp" utitlity. It's very simple, look to the manual page:
man scp
The very basic usage:
scp remote_user@remote_host:/path/to/remote/file /path/to/local/file
and vice versa:
scp /path/to/local/file remote_user@remote_host:/path/to/remote/file
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Thanks, it works! How can I do the same with the whole folder? – LA_ Sep 04 '11 at 08:47
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4Use "-r" option: scp -r user@host:/path/file /path/local. Please, mark the answer as accepted if it works. – Pavel S. Sep 04 '11 at 09:01
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Just look to manual page for scp (in terminal, type "man scp"). There is a lot of more options. – Pavel S. Sep 04 '11 at 09:02
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How can I copy folders also with files, this command just copying only files – Amit Dwivedi Sep 27 '15 at 11:37
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@LA_ you can zip all files. – Silvio Delgado Nov 13 '15 at 01:20
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To copy a non empty directory from the remote computer to your computer:
scp -r remoteusername@192.168.1.56:/home/vrc/Desktop/www /home/ourusername/Desktop
To copy a file just exclude the -r option:
scp remoteusername@192.168.1.56:/home/vrc/Desktop/file1 /home/ourusername/Desktop
To copy from your computer to the remote computer, just switch the location and destination in the previous example.
For more info do man scp.
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Another way you can do: ( via pem file )
If you want to use pem file and you are ROOT user:
1. root user:
sudo scp -i ~/servers/your-key.pem ~/your-local-source-path/your-local-file.txt root@00.00.00.11:/you-server-destination-path/
note the colon : between server IP and destination path.
if I can't logged in with root user, see step 2.
2. standard user:
suppose you are ubuntu user with standard privileges.
sudo scp -i ~/servers/your-key.pem ~/your-local-source-path/your-local-file.txt ubuntu@00.00.00.11:/home/ubuntu/
this will put the file in home directory. then login to remote sever with standard user. and do
sudo su
you'll switched to root user. then move the file to destination directory
mv /home/ubuntu/your-local-file.txt /you-server-destination-path/your-local-file.txt
I often encounter this problem, therefore sharing an alternative way to get the job done !
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