Transferring files with the scp Command (Linux Crash Course Series)

The Linux Crash Course Series - Teaching you a valuable Linux command/skill/topic one video at a time! This time around, our journey takes us to the Secure Copy (scp) command, which you can use to copy files from one Linux instance to another via SSH. You'll learn everything you need to know in order to get started with scp so don't miss this video!
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00:00 - Intro
01:35 - Set up your own Linux server with Akamai Connected Cloud (sponsor)
02:53 - The scp command is usually preinstalled
03:48 - with scp, file transfers are performed via SSH
04:13 - Prerequisite - a Linux server (to copy files to)
05:11 - Basic usage of the scp command on Linux
08:15 - Using scp in the opposite direction (transfer from remote to local)
09:08 - Quick SSH tip - execute a single command against a server
11:31 - Simplifying the scp command
14:13 - Transferring an entire directory with scp (recursive option)
16:32 - Transferring files with scp while also retaining modification times/dates
17:54 - How to use scp with a non-standard SSH port
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[@jacobsoby3910]

I'm looking forward to your rsync video as well. Very nice into, still watching... I've used scp in the past, never rsync though.

[@SB-qm5wg]

An extra. The one difference between scp and ssh is the port flag. For scp it's uppercase -P for port and ssh it's lower case -p . I get those mixed up sometimes as I use non-standard service ports.

[@kdg1955]

'scp' is part of the openssh package (package openssh-clients on dnf-distribution). So if you have 'ssh' then you probably have 'scp' too. Package openssh provides also 'sftp'.

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[@BigelowInventions]

Great tutorial!

[@Carhill]

Story time: Few weeks back I had to rip an ISO of a Windows disc, but the machines were locked down. The machines recently had VMWare installed... where I'd installed Kubuntu. I passed the CD through to Kubuntu where I could no permissions issues, grabbed a reputable tool to turn it into an ISO. But, then was struggling to get it out of there... So I used SCP from Powershell in the host machine to grab it from the VM. Quite convoluted, but it worked. 😂

[@christopherjackson2157]

Looking forward to a new rsync video. I use the tool, but I feel like there's lots of useful functionality in it that I'm unaware of

[@HadToChangeMyName_YoutubeSucks]

Is anyone really aware of all that rsync can do? Fantastic tool, but just man rsync (1) is over 50 pages long..

[@tanuj05]

Nice and helpful video !

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[@PaPaTheGMan1215]

Thanks, your videos are always well done and helpful. Can you describe how to use this in an unattended script (i.e., cron) when the target server needs a password for access.

[@user-ng8rl3jb1i]

very nice! it would be helpfull to show how we can start a server in another machine too

[@dmac5678]

Was hoping there was talks about permissions both in the local server and remote

[@ladreamin5008]

Thanks to you and your videos I was able to copy files from a Rapberry Pi file system over to a bootable Batocera USB and it worked perfectly thank you for your videos!

[@NeUrOmAnCeRAI]

Great tool supported by the SCP Foundation.

[@DDBAA24]

I just stared using 'scp -rp' more often, and 'pigz'. My go-to has been rsync for a long time. I like pigz because it removes the original files while writing a .tar.gz archive to another location. When low on disk space its the better option to free up space, IF you have barely any space left to create the archive in your pwd.

[@michaelharbuck3314]

I use 'croc' on my inside network. Its a neat little program. I was able to compile it from source on my MangoPi RISC-V board thing. It worked. pretty cool. ubuntu server runs pretty good on it for a single core. hosts up static web sites no prob.

[@WalterPetrovic]

Can you do all this copying via GUI from one computer to another, including servers?

[@diegonayalazo]

Thanks

[@joelwalberg9802]

Can you relay the part about not memorizing everything to COMPTIA please?

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Nice shirt! impressive, most impressive.

[@jeremiahbullfrog9288]

Beware: if your login script (.bashrc etc) writes any text to the terminal, scp will fail with crpytic behavior.

[@dominick253]

Pretty sure it stands for secure containe protect 😂😂😂

[@yensteel]

You deserve the SCP 999! Also, this channel is SCP 5094 in the flesh 👍