how to download a file ...get command ?

Volcano · 01-12-2010, 05:33 AM

I have logged into the shell using putty . I am now here...

axktij09:admin:/temp/app/jfg/khgjkqrstit01>

My Objective :
I want to download a remote file to my local hard disk.

source file:/temp/app/jfg/khgjkqrstit01/YourInside/pages/a.jsp

destination D:\YourInside\pages

what command I need to fire from the shell ? I think I need to use 'get' ...but I am not sure what to write for my case.

N.B : This could be overwrite download . As I have a copy of the same file in the destination directory.

devnull10 · 01-12-2010, 06:13 AM

How are you logged in? telnet, ssh?

Does your server have either ftp or ssh enabled? If so, look up the ftp and scp commands.

Volcano · 01-12-2010, 06:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by devnull10

How are you logged in? telnet, ssh?

Does your server have either ftp or ssh enabled? If so, look up the ftp and scp commands.

putty + SSH

Quote:

oes your server have either ftp or ssh enabled?

Yes. FTP enabled.

Can you please tell me what command to fire ?

Dave_Devnull · 01-12-2010, 06:16 AM

Personally I would use 'scp', but as you are using Putty I would not know how to deal with the local (Windows?) end of things. I'm assuming Windows as I can't see any reason to run Putty if you have an ordinary *nix shell available. With that in mind take a look at WinSCP for doing drag/drop type copies between Win/Lin over a network.

Hope that helps.

Volcano · 01-12-2010, 06:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave_Devnull

Personally I would use 'scp', but as you are using Putty I would not know how to deal with the local (Windows?) end of things. I'm assuming Windows as I can't see any reason to run Putty if you have an ordinary *nix shell available. With that in mind take a look at WinSCP for doing drag/drop type copies between Win/Lin over a network.

Hope that helps.

if you are using putty , you just get a command console ....this is just as similar you fire a telnet command from windows command prompt.

What I need is a proper FTP command to shoot from the remote console .

Here is a BAD/ IMAGINARY ftp command .

ftp - source /temp/app/jfg/khgjkqrstit01/YourInside/pages/a.jsp -destination D:\YourInside\pages

I probabily need something like that to shoot ...can you correct it ?

manavendra · 01-12-2010, 06:23 AM

You can use the wget command to download the file to your putty client's server.

wget [URL]
For example,

Code:

manav@manav-workstation:~$ wget "http://www.emea.europa.eu/pdfs/human/comp/opinion/45024308en.pdf"

After this, to copy/move this file from server to your local hard disk, you can use winscp on your Windows and browse both local and remote directories.

Dave_Devnull · 01-12-2010, 08:34 AM

Keep in mind when you are logged in with Putty, you are on a *remote* system. Put it this way, if you were sat at a Linux server in one place, how would that server access your windows box from that server? Could you ftp into it from that Linux box? Does the windows machine have an ftp server running on it? Does it have a scp service running on it? Probably not.

You have a couple of options, but the easiest would be to use WinSCP: http://winscp.net/eng/index.php
{this tutorial: http://www.spampig.org.uk/drwaffleone.php is unrelated, but at the foot of the page details using WinSCP for what you want}

Or, you can download the putty additional program: "pscp" and run something like this from a windows command prompt:

Quote:

"c:\program files\putty\pscp" user@host:/tmp/a.a e:\downloads\

{shamelessly stolen from somewhere else}

nuwen52 · 01-12-2010, 08:49 AM

pscp is available in the full PuTTY package that I use. But, there is no graphical interface so you have to run it from the command line (as Dave_Devnull) stated. scp (pscp in this case) is built into ssh and connects through the ssh daemon on the server. So, you need no other programs to do this. This, to me, would be the best way.

Dave_Devnull · 01-12-2010, 09:27 AM

It brings us back to what Putty itself is. It's a remote client. So the OP needs to ask himself "If I was sat in front of that Linux server, how could I access that Windows machine?"

The command to run if the OP wants to do it from a Windows command prompt;
1. cd into the directory where 'pscp.exe' is located (of not in the path) - in my example it's in C:\putty
2. Run:

C:\putty>pscp user1@1.2.3.4:/home/user1/the_remote_file_you_want .

Where user1 is the username used to log into the remote server
1.2.3.4 is the ip address or hostname of the remote server

This will prompt for the remote server's password for 'user1', and the file will then download into the current directory on the Windows box (signified by the '.' on the end of the statement)

C:\putty>dir

Should show it.

Hope that helps, but there is more info here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...4/#post1084922

Volcano · 01-12-2010, 11:35 AM

comments are in bold

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave_Devnull

It brings us back to what Putty itself is. It's a remote client. So the OP needs to ask himself "If I was sat in front of that Linux server, how could I access that Windows machine?"

The command to run if the OP wants to do it from a Windows command prompt;
1. cd into the directory where 'pscp.exe' is located (of not in the path) - in my example it's in C:\putty
2. Run:

C:\putty>pscp user1@1.2.3.4:/home/user1/the_remote_file_you_want .

don't we need to use port number here ? In putty when I login i normally choose port = 22 and SSH ...Don't we need to write down port number in your command ?

Where user1 is the username used to log into the remote server
1.2.3.4 is the ip address or hostname of the remote server

This will prompt for the remote server's password for 'user1', and the file will then download into the current directory on the Windows box (signified by the '.' on the end of the statement)

C:\putty>dir

but I wanted to send it to the D:\YourInside\pages folder . so, this seems I need to copy manually again to my desired directory ...can't I downloadload the file directly to the destination folder ?

Should show it.

Hope that helps, but there is more info here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...4/#post1084922

Volcano · 01-12-2010, 08:53 PM

any comments ?

chrism01 · 01-12-2010, 11:26 PM

Expanding on Dave_Devnull :

Code:

c:/somedir>pscp user1@1.2.3.4:/home/user1/the_remote_file d:/some_other_dir/

No port reqd, scp is part of the ssh pkg and assumes port 22 unless otherwise directed.
K.I.S.S.

Volcano · 01-13-2010, 01:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrism01

Expanding on Dave_Devnull :

Code:

c:/somedir>pscp user1@1.2.3.4:/home/user1/the_remote_file d:/some_other_dir/

No port reqd, scp is part of the ssh pkg and assumes port 22 unless otherwise directed.
K.I.S.S.

This works if the file is NOT present in local hard disk.

but If the file is present in local hard disk then it throws an error ' Cannot create file' ...So, can you modify the command so that it can include overwrite file download ? is it possible ? it may ask 'Y' or 'N' for overwrite .

Dave_Devnull · 01-13-2010, 01:49 AM

What does the documentation/manual say?

http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/.../Chapter5.html

Volcano · 01-13-2010, 02:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave_Devnull

What does the documentation/manual say?

http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/.../Chapter5.html

ok ... looks like this facility is not available in the manual .

I was looking for "interactive" and "overwrite" options ...but none present there.