FBSD built in FTP server

Andrew Boothman andrew at cream.org
Tue Dec 9 13:11:31 PST 2003


Steve Bertrand wrote:

> Sftp is great, and also loaded up by default is 'scp', which is the
> Secure 'copy' program. From *nix to *nix, it is an effective way to copy
> files to/from remote computers just as if they were local file systems:
> 
>>From local to remote
> 
> # scp thisfile steve at remote.domain.com:/home/steve
> 
> and to copy from remote to local:
> 
> # scp steve at remote.domain.com:/home/steve/thisfile /home/steve

Agreed - I use scp a lot for copying files and directories between machines.

There's also a great command-line scp client available for windows 
called pscp available from http://www.putty.org.uk/download.html along 
with PuTTY itself which is IMHO the best free windows SSH client available.

Andrew


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