How in Ubuntu do you copy (or move) files from the rest of your system's hard drive/s to a shared folder on the same machine?

And to answer the question before it's asked, I have gone back to Google because DuckDuckGo is dog slow on my WiFi LAN (I prefer to blame my service carrier [Spectrum] rather than my machine).

I have used the word "LOCAL," a word I thought summarises 'same machine' in my search strings but I don't see any hits which look like they link to discussions of copying files on the same machine (a four-word string that is bound to confuse the Boolean routines on Any search engine, DDG included).

I remember seeing something close, which recommended using cUrl, wget, even FTP, but I don't think I should have to resort to those measures.

My intent is facilitate copying (or moving) APKs for my phone into the shared folder from where I can SMB or FTP them to the logical target {the phone}.

Once I know the ordinary path, I ought to be able to script something (I script in bash, for the uninitiated), shouldn't I?

Carver

How do you copy of move files in Linux from one place on the machine to another?

Either using the cp or mv commands from the command line.

Or using the File Manager and selecting files/folders, then cut/copy/paste.

Can you please describe why there seems to be a problem with this?

Is this an Android phone? Then mount it as a mtp device somewhere. Then you can copy to it/from it. With core tools or a file mgr. Phone needs to be set as mtp device.

Reference:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...nsfer_Protocol
Yes, you sure can.

Alternatively, you can install Airdroid from the Play Store. You do not need an Airdroid account to use it for local file transfers. I've been using Airdroid for several years and found it quite serviceable.

https://www.airdroid.com/

@rtmistler: I still wouldn't know the destination of the cp or mv command, would I?
What's the path? What's the pattern to look for? I can copy or move from hard drive to attached USB volume, because I've known the basic pattern point a to point b for longer than even USB has been around, but no one has given me an answer to WHAT'S THE PATH?

@teckk: I want to skip physically (and in a literal sense, a USB cable is physical, is it not?) connecting my phone to my laptop. To use the WiFi LAN I already have in place. I did install an MTP utility, only to discover that it used MTP and Only MTP, at which point in time I UNinstalled it (I didn't even have it on my machine long enough to remember the name.)

@frankbell: I have used AirDroid since I first got this phone, and on one other phone, briefly, before this one. Frankly, I find it a hassle, too. I'm looking for "old school" means, like SSH and SMB which (before 2017, ymmv) were as easy to get instructions for as falling out of bed. Again, path please!

Did something happen in the two and a half years between my first Android phone and this one to make "old and reliable" such an anathema to people who used to know this stuff (myself included)? [It reminds me of bash 4.0 and wherever bash is now in update numbers: when did declaring an IFS suddenly become an obstacle and not a help?]

Carver

When I created a shared folder on my laptop, I did not use a file navigator. I created it in the .conf file (ssh.conf, more than likely) which, of course, is the wrong way to go about things. The right way would certainly give me a path, as I banged on and on about in my previous post; the minor issue of setting permissions to that would indeed be no issue at all to someone of my experience.

Always the smallest things baffle and confuse one, right?

So my new question is: is it preferable to make such a directory in /home/$USER/Public or simply /home/$USER? I've always been sketchy on that bit.

Carver

You are the one sitting at the machine. Use you own paths that you have mounted. How could anyone else know that?

You can have a ssh server running on the laptop and ssh into it from the phone, or vise versa

I think that I've seen smb for android in the app store.

One other option would be to have a web server running on the laptop, then open a browser on the phone and get what you want.

For example using python, with a laptop at 192.168.0.2, in the directory that you want to share
Open the phones web browser to http://192.168.0.2:8100

Or from my notes:
Or you can share a single file with
Open the phones web browser to http://192.168.0.2:8100

Old school enough for you?

Sorry for all the edits

Sftp. is dead simple.
Old school is pre-2017?
rsync hasn't changed in 20 years, dead simple.

I must be ancient.

Please answer "I think I figured out where I've gone wrong."

I'm anticipating problems with any new shared folders I create.

Carver

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