Hi All,

I am facing issue in coping files with scp from linux to windows through cygdrive. Please go through the below problem description.

When I try to copy files from Linux machine using below command, it says no such file or directory, while the file is exists at the location.

I tried to copy file using below command.

The files gets copied at my home directory with "cygdrivectemp" name. while expected result is file should gets copied at \cygdrive\c\temp with tmp.txt name.

Also when I am doing scp from cygwin file gets copied successfully.

When I Google it I found that this might be because of git repository executables were used instead of cygwin. I have installed sshd on cygwin.

I know I can copy files with winscp but for some reason I have a requirement of cygwin and test few more things in cygwin.

Please help me to resolve this as I this is very urgent.


Thanks,
Yogesh

The command
is subject to interpretation by the shell in which it is executed. The actual command will be interpreted as
which causes the creation of the file that you observed.
Try
instead.

Thanks Allend for your reply.

I've traced the bulk of my problems to be a result of the installation of MSYSGit that is on the system. It has its own set of Unix-like utilities that do not play well with Cygwin.

As a first step, I went onto paravai and inserted a c:\cygwin64\bin in front of c:\Program Files\Git\bin in the PATH variable.

This fixed almost all of my problems with respect to paths being interpreted correctly from the Unix utilities.


Regards,
Yogesh