Linux File Transfer (not ftp)

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Jun 12 17:09:34 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 11:50 -0500, Matthew Benjamin wrote:
> Can someone recommend the "best/most efficient" way to transfer files
> from one linux machine to another, without using ftp?

One off:
scp file user at remote_host:/path/to/file

Repeated/recursion:
cd directory
rsync -essh -av . user at remote_host:/path/to/directory

Both ways need ssh access to the remote.

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  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com





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