SCP Changing text file contents
I am trying to copy a file from machine A:
apt policy openssh-client
openssh-client:
Installiert: 1:7.2p2-4ubuntu2.4
to machine B:
apt-cache policy openssh-client
openssh-client:
Installiert: 1:5.5p1-6+squeeze5
On A:
scp myfile <server>:/myfile
md5sum myfile
2ba67c5e816350d4d2e2e7fd883037e7
file myfile
myfile: Python script, ASCII text executable
On B:
md5sum myfile
8883620c2a0878da1db273101b55124d
file myfile
myfile: ASCII Java program text
Looking into the text file, it seems that every line has one more space in it than the last one, so instead of:
import argparse, os, sys
from subprocess import check_output
def count_voicemails(dir):
# find is faster than ls, since it does not check attributes
command = 'find {}/INBOX -maxdepth 1 | wc -l'
count = int(check_output(command.split()))
return count
It looks like this:
import argparse, os, sys
from subprocess import check_output
def count_voicemails(dir):
# find is faster than ls, since it does not check attributes
command = 'find {}/INBOX -maxdepth 1 | wc -l'
count = int(check_output(command.split()))
return count
Solution 1:
Your scp command sends the file to the root of the target server - you're scp:ing to /myfile
. When you later look at the file, you're not giving the full path. It looks as though you have once tried to copy the contents of a file using an editor configured to insert indentation from the previous line, and that's the file you're looking at.