how to copy file from local to remote via ssh

Question

this is how to shh to server

ssh -p 2222 thatilike@192.185.21.105

I want to copy file logo.png to public_html folder on server

This is what I tried

scp ./logo.png -p 2222 thatilike@192.185.21.105:/public_html/

Don't know why not work

alexus · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-04T04:09:45.240

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per man scp

 -P port
         Specifies the port to connect to on the remote host.  Note that this option is written
         with a capital ‘P’, because -p is already reserved for preserving the times and modes of
         the file in rcp(1).

 -p      Preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the original file.

corrected syntax:

scp -P 2222 ./logo.png thatilike@192.185.21.105:/public_html/

example:

$ touch ./logo.png
$ scp -P XXXXX ./logo.png XXX@XXX.XXX:/tmp/
logo.png                                                             100%    0     0.0KB/s   00:00    
$

to check connectivity (via ssh) and target directory exist do following.

$ ssh -p XXXXX XXX@XXX.XXX 'if [ -d /tmp/ ] ; then ls -ld /tmp/ ; fi'
drwxrwxrwt  21 root  wheel  31232 Mar  3 23:04 /tmp/
$

edited Mar 04 '17 at 04:09

answered Mar 03 '17 at 17:58

alexus

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I just your command. After enter, I wait for a while and I got this message `ssh: connect to host 192.185.21.105 port 22: Operation timed out lost connection` – angry kiwi Mar 03 '17 at 18:07
@angrykiwi I just revised it, try it again (assuming your host is up and source file and destination directory exists, it should work) – alexus Mar 03 '17 at 18:09
With updated commnad I got this message `scp: /public_html/: Is a directory` – angry kiwi Mar 03 '17 at 19:03
@angrykiwi if use my line exactly, it'll work. – alexus Mar 03 '17 at 19:37
I don't know why it doesn't, I made video, https://youtu.be/jwRrwkXs8Xw – angry kiwi Mar 04 '17 at 02:41
@angrykiwi see update in my answer, try that line as well – alexus Mar 04 '17 at 04:11

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 03 '17 at 17:58

Your command line doesn't specify the port number correctly.

As seen in the scp man page:

     -P port
             Specifies the port to connect to on the remote host.  Note that
             this option is written with a capital ‘P’, because -p is already
             reserved for preserving the times and modes of the file.

how to copy file from local to remote via ssh

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