I'm trying to copy my .profile, .rvm and .ssh folders/files to a new computer and keep getting a "not a regular file" response. I know how to use the cp
and ssh
commands but I'm not sure how to use them in order to transfer files from one computer to another.
Any help would be great, thanks!
You can do this with the scp
command, which uses the ssh protocol to copy files across machines. It extends the syntax of cp
to allow references to other systems:
scp username1@hostname1:/path/to/file username2@hostname2:/path/to/other/file
Copy something from this machine to some other machine:
scp /path/to/local/file username@hostname:/path/to/remote/file
Copy something from another machine to this machine:
scp username@hostname:/path/to/remote/file /path/to/local/file
Copy with a port number specified:
scp -P 1234 username@hostname:/path/to/remote/file /path/to/local/file