[SOLVED] Copying file from server to home computer.

michaelk · 03-19-2015, 01:12 PM

Being logged into the server the command as executed would of transfered the file to the server itself if I understand what you have posted.

vinay45 · 03-19-2015, 01:21 PM

would this command work:

Code:

scp [file to be copied] some_user@my_ip:[destination_folder]

or

Code:

scp file.txt login@INTERNET_IP -R [port]:local_ip:[port]:[destination]

michaelk · 03-19-2015, 01:32 PM

You are logged into the vps using putty on the windows PC. You can not transfer files to the windows PC using scp (assume a ssh server is not installed on the windows pc). As suggested in an early post to use winscp or filezilla.

273 · 03-19-2015, 02:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vinay45

sorry mate the diretory that i used was wrong instead of 'downloads' i used 'download'
it still doesn't copy the file to my computer this is what i get:

Code:

[root@vinay ~]# scp root@vinay:/home/joyyy/Downloads/final.pdf .
root@vinay's password:
final.pdf                                     100   36MB  35.8MB/s   00:01

I think you're confused about how scp works. You wouldn't SSH into a server then use scp to copy from it -- you would use scp on your desktop to connect to the server and grab the file. Of course, if you have an SSH server running on your desktop to which your server can connect you can do it that way but it's back to front.
Remember that puTTY is an SSH client and not a Linux shell so every command typed in there is being run on the remote server not the local Windows desktop.

Doug G · 03-19-2015, 03:26 PM

I use winscp on windows to copy files to/from remote servers.

vinay45 · 03-19-2015, 11:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Doug G

I use winscp on windows to copy files to/from remote servers.

thank you everyone,i was curious to know how to use the command line to copy file although this fixed the issue.

Doug G · 03-20-2015, 12:30 PM

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... ,i was curious to know how to use the command line to copy file ...

If you're running the command prompt on the windows machine with putty installed, putty includes a command-line windows scp program called pscp. It's similar to the linux scp program, but check the help file for syntax details.

vinay45 · 03-21-2015, 04:09 AM

I tried pscp in windows command line but it doesn't work
'pscp' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

michaelk · 03-21-2015, 05:20 AM

The directory where you downloaded pscp is not in the path environment. You need to use the cd command just like linux.

273 · 03-21-2015, 10:08 AM

I think pscp has to be downloaded separately -- it certainly looks that way from the website, anyhow.

vinay45 · 03-22-2015, 09:22 AM

Thanks guy finally figured out how its to be done.Here's the syntax :

Code:

C:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY>pscp root@XXX.XXX.XX.X:/home/joyyy/Downloads/CentOS
-7.0-1406-x86_64-DVD.iso E:\

I was not using the 'cd' command at first thats why it didn't work thanks to all,