Please help, how do I copy one file to another directory
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Please help, how do I copy one file to another directory
Hello, could anyone give me the SSH commands to copy a file from one directory and place it in another? The fle is 480Megs so I dont want to reupload it. Thanks
Sure. Let's say you have a file called "lexington.txt". That file is located at your /home/user/temp and you want to change it to your /home/user/docs. This is the command:
cp /home/temp/lexington.txt /home/user/docs
Basically, it's cp /file to copy /destination
To move a file, use mv instead of cp. rm will delete the file. Some hints:
You don't have to type the hole destination or name of the file, type a few "characters" as lexin... then press TAB. Linux will autocomplete the file for you .
Some files cannot be moved/copied if you are not root.
A good list of commands for Linux/Unix is found here
If you want to do a secure copy to another computer using the secure shell, the command to use is scp, which stands for secure copy.
The format is:
scp <path>/<filename> user@hostname:/<destination_path>/<filename>
If you are sending this file over an internet connection, you might want to split it up using rar, and produce a couple par parity files. That way, you can copy a few files at a time, and if a couple parts are corrupted, you can recover them. Just ssh to the destination and use par to recover that bad rar segments, and use rar to rejoin them.
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