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*)?
3 Answers
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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4Use "-r" option: scp -r user@host:/path/file /path/local. Please, mark the answer as accepted if it works.– Pavel S.Sep 4, 2011 at 9:01
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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 4, 2011 at 9:02
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How can I copy folders also with files, this command just copying only files Sep 27, 2015 at 11:37
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To copy a non empty directory from the remote computer to your computer:
scp -r [email protected]:/home/vrc/Desktop/www /home/ourusername/Desktop
To copy a file just exclude the -r
option:
scp [email protected]:/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 [email protected]:/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 [email protected]:/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 !