The scp invocation is syntactically fine. Single quotes on the scp variable arguments would be wrong - the variables would not get expanded by the shell. Double-quotes are generally the safe way to to ...

FTP was the popular protocol for file transfer but short of using FTPS, it doesn't provide the security required these days. Here's how to use Secure Copy (SCP) for file transfer. Secure copy, or SCP, ...

Ubuntu includes a variety of utilities for connecting to secure shell servers. The standard "ssh" command connects to the remote SSH server and provides a terminal prompt that you can use to run ...

SSH, or secure shell, is a Unix shell used for secure communication between two networked computers. You may wish to securely download files from a remote system ...

Have you ever used Secure Shell to access a remote machine, only to find yourself needing to download a file from a remote location? What do you do? Since you only have terminal window access to that ...

Ubuntu Hardy 8.04.1-LTS (server). All of a sudden, scp stopped working. Can't figure out for the life of me why. Code: me@box:~$ scp me@otherbox:/tmp/testfile.txt ...