How can I copy/paste files in the terminal window (SSH)? [duplicate]
I am new to ubuntu and my friend told me to SSH into my IPod so i can put/remove songs on it.
I've been succesfully ssh'ing into it but i do not know how to copy and paste my songs from my Home Directory into my iPod. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I do know basic commands like ls, cd, pwd, etc. I do know the cp command but cannot utilize it.
Time to learn a new command! :)
To learn more about it:
man scp
Secure Copy allows you to copy the contents of your friends directories to your local system.
So you mention you are comfortable with using SSH. Let say that your friends IP address is 192.168.1.100. and your username is joe. The files on your friends computer are located in /share/music/.
Open a terminal window using "Ctrl-Alt-T" or use the Dash Search Bar
Now to copy individual files issue the following:
scp [email protected]:/share/music/filename1.mp3 .
What this says is, ssh into your friend's computer at 192.168.1.100 with the username joe and copy the mp3 file /share/music/filename1.mp3 to your local present working directory (note the period)
You can actually specify a location to save the mp3 other than your present working directory
scp [email protected]:/share/music/filename1.mp3 /var/tmp
So in the example above, I'm saving the mp3 to /var/tmp
Just make sure that you have proper permissions to the directory your saving too.
Now, to save whole directories, you need to use the recursive flag -r
scp -r [email protected]:/share/music/album1 /var/tmp/
So now all the mp3's in /share/music/album1 will save to /var/tmp/
You can use scp command in terminal if you want to, but you don't have to do it in terminal.
Just open a new Nautilus window and select Go - Location... from the menu. This will open an input box where you need to put the connection string, something like
sftp://[email protected]/path/to/directory
Hit Enter, it'll ask you for password, and that's it:
Then you can just drag and drop the files from another Nautilus window