Hi,

I need a help in writing a SHELL SCRIPT for COPYING FILES AND FOLDERS FROM A LINUX SERVER TO A WINDOWS SERVER using WinSCP.

I have an IP address, username and a password to connect to the Linux server (using WinSCP). From there I am copying the files to the windows server. I want to do this automatically in a daily basis. Pls help me on this...

Well it's my understanding that WinSCP is a program that runs on Windows and provides SFTP and FTP clients. So I would follow the documentation on the WinSCP site http://winscp.net/eng/docs/scripting for scripting. If you need assistance with Linux please explain your question in detail and describe exactly what you stuck on.

Using winSCP, I can connect to the linux machine using the IP, username and password. I need a shell script, which can automatically connect to the linux machine and copy the files to the windows machine using SCP.

WinSCP is a client, it's not a server. So a shell script initiated from the Linux machine isn't going to be able to connect to WinSCP. Your best bet would be setting up a script or a batch file on the Windows PC and initiate the connection using your WinSCP client. With that said I wouldn't recommend running a FTP server on Windows unless you have a really good firewall or it's on a private network. Now if your hell bent on running a Linux script to transfer files another option would be to use Samba and setup file share(s) on the Windows server. That would be a relativly simple thing to do. Just create a symbolic link to your Windows PC file share then set up a shell cript to copy files into that folder(s).

I need a shell script to copy files frm a linux machine to a windows machine using SCP. The files keeps changing day-to-day. I have to copy the latest file to the windows machine frm the linux machine.

for example : On July 20, the file name will be 20.txt and it should be copied to windows

On July 21, It will become 21.txt and it also should be copied.

I need a script to work this

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1 Linux Documentation Project

2 Rute Tutorial & Exposition

3 Linux Command Guide 

4 Bash Beginners Guide

5 Bash Reference Manual

6 Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide

7 Linux Newbie Admin Guide

8 LinuxSelfHelp

9 Utimate Linux Newbie Guide
10 Linux Home Networking
11 Virtualization- Top 10

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