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Can one use SCP to copy just some of the files in a directory at one time or will they have to be copied one at a time.

Example: There are 12 files in a directory and only 4 of them need to be copied to a new location.

I understand how to copy one or even the entire directory.

Man scp and info scp does not help. Most of the time I can't figure out what man or info are saying about a command or what the options with the command mean. I learn by trial and error and asking a lot of questions.

Thanks

You could list the files separated by spaces,
like this:

Code:

mingdao@peter:~$ ls -alc

total 16486

drwx--x--x    4 mingdao  users        464 Feb  8 22:17 ./

drwxr-xr-x    6 root    root          120 Oct 24 09:26 ../

-rw-------    1 mingdao  users        2160 Feb  8 22:14 .bash_history

drwx------    2 mingdao  users        136 Jan 30 07:05 .gnupg/

-rw-r--r--    1 mingdao  users        3394 Oct 24 09:26 .screenrc

drwx------    2 mingdao  users          80 Oct 25 20:36 .ssh/

-rw-r--r--    1 mingdao  users      35042 Oct 25 20:35 Anna_testimony.sxw

-rw-r--r--    1 mingdao  users          36 Feb  8 22:17 file_tfr

-rw-------    1 mingdao  users    8468961 Feb  8 22:11 firefox-0.9.1-i686-linux-gtk2+xft-installer.tar.gz

-rw-------    1 mingdao  users    8344026 Feb  8 22:11 firefox-0.9.3-i686-linux-gtk2+xft-installer.tar.gz

-rw-r--r--    1 mingdao  users          62 Feb  8 22:11 firefox_error

-rw-r--r--    1 mingdao  users          38 Feb  8 22:11 flashwa.ram

-rw-r--r--    1 mingdao  users        121 Nov  3 10:10 good_commands

mingdao@peter:~$ scp file_tfr firefox_error good_commands flashwa.ram 192.168.1.31:~/test

mingdao@192.168.1.31's password: 

file_tfr                                                                                                                                100%  36    0.0KB/s  00:00    

firefox_error                                                                                                                          100%  62    0.0KB/s  00:00    

good_commands                                                                                                                          100%  121    0.0KB/s  00:00    

flashwa.ram                                                                                                                            100%  38    0.0KB/s  00:00    

mingdao@peter:~$logout

mingdao@james:~/test$ ls -alc ~/test

total 21

drwxr-xr-x  2 mingdao users  168 2005-02-08 22:16 ./

drwx--x--x  75 mingdao users 5144 2005-02-08 22:10 ../

-rw-r--r--  1 mingdao users  36 2005-02-08 22:15 file_tfr

-rw-r--r--  1 mingdao users  62 2005-02-08 22:15 firefox_error

-rw-r--r--  1 mingdao users  38 2005-02-08 22:15 flashwa.ram

-rw-r--r--  1 mingdao users  121 2005-02-08 22:15 good_commands

if you have a txtfile including the filenames of the files to be copied you can use:

scp `cat filename` user@host:/home/~user

I like the idea of a txt file with the names of the files listed if it works but I can't get it to work.

How does the contents of the txt file have to be written?

simply the filename.

Code:

$ cat filelist.txt

file1

file2

file3

file4

Thanks, I got it to work. I like it!