Linux command-SCP: remote file copy

SCP is similar to the normal file copy command CP, and the biggest difference between them is that the source or destination file of the SCP command is a remote file.

Command format

SCP [Options] [[user@]host1:]file1 ... [[User@]host2:] file2

Command parameters

-1
Force SCP to use protocol 1.

-2
Force SCP to use protocol 2.

-4
Force SCP to use only IPV4 addresses.

-6
Force SCP to use only IPV6 addresses.

-B
Select the batch mode.

-C
Allow compression.

-C cipher
Select cipher to encrypt the transmitted data. This option is passed directly to SSH (1).

-F Ssh_config
Specify an optional user profile for SSH. This option is passed directly to SSH (1).

-L Limit
Limits the transmission bandwidth, in units of kbit/s.

-O ssh_option
You can pass options in ssh_config configuration format to SSH.

-P Port
Specifies the port to connect to the remote host.

-P
Preserves the original file's modification time, last access time, and permission mode.

-Q
Quiet mode, ignoring warning and diagnostic information from SSH.

-R
Recursively copies the entire directory.

-S Program
Specifies the encryption program. The program must be able to understand the options for SSH (1).

-V
Redundancy mode, which prints debug information in the program.

Instance

A) Copy the redis/redis-3.0.4.tar.gz from the sugar user's home directory from the remote host 192.168.1.88 to the current directory.

SCP [email protected]:~/redis/redis-3.0.4.tar.gz. [email protected] ' s password:redis-3.0.4.tar.gz                                                                                             100% 1333KB   1.3mb/s   ls-l redis-3.0.4.tar.gz - rw-rw-r--1 Huey Huey 1364993 OCT 11:59 redis-3.0.4.tar.gz

Linux command-SCP: remote file copy