SSH in Terminal, retrieve files

Geoff Welsh

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Mar 21, 2005, 12:44:22 PM3/21/05

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While SSH'd from my home directory on my machine to my home directory on
another machine.....how to I "get" (like ftp) a file from there to here?

I'm guessing there is some long name for my machine I don't know and
that I just need to scp in reverse?
thanks
GW

David Magda

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Mar 21, 2005, 4:19:04 PM3/21/05

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Geoff Welsh <geoff...@some.rr.com> writes:

> While SSH'd from my home directory on my machine to my home
> directory on another machine.....how to I "get" (like ftp) a file
> from there to here?

Either sftp or scp.

(Sftp should not be confused with the regular FTP protocol running
over SSL/TLS.)

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Shawn Hearn

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Mar 21, 2005, 11:17:02 PM3/21/05

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In article <WJD%d.44202$VD5....@twister.socal.rr.com>,
Geoff Welsh <geoff...@some.rr.com> wrote:

Use sftp. You could use scp instead, but I find sftp to be easier.

Geoff Welsh

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Mar 21, 2005, 11:21:21 PM3/21/05

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David Magda wrote:

> Geoff Welsh <geoff...@some.rr.com> writes:
>
>
>>While SSH'd from my home directory on my machine to my home
>>directory on another machine.....how to I "get" (like ftp) a file
>>from there to here?
>
>
> Either sftp or scp.
>
> (Sftp should not be confused with the regular FTP protocol running
> over SSL/TLS.)
>

Sorry I wasn't specific enough in my question.
Given that I can transfer a file from my User/me folder to my friends
(remote) machine by typing:
scp file.xxx myuse...@thatmachine.something.net:file.xxx

and that I can SSH to that remote machine by typing:
ssh myuse...@thatmachine.something.net

Does anyone have an idea what I would type to get something from there
back to here?

My Unix knowledge is basicly one small cheat sheet with very specific cases.

GW

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Bob Harris

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Mar 22, 2005, 8:02:39 AM3/22/05

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In article <53N%d.53297$xX3....@twister.socal.rr.com>,
Geoff Welsh <geoff...@some.rr.com> wrote:

scp myuse...@thatmachine.something.net:file.xxx file.xxx

or

sftp thatmachine.something.net
Username: myusername
Password: xxxxxx
sftp> get file.xxx
sftp> bye

Bob Harris

Geoff Welsh

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Mar 23, 2005, 1:24:56 AM3/23/05

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Bob Harris wrote:

>>Does anyone have an idea what I would type to get something from there
>>back to here?

>>GW
>
> scp myuse...@thatmachine.something.net:file.xxx file.xxx
>
> or
>
> sftp thatmachine.something.net
> Username: myusername
> Password: xxxxxx
> sftp> get file.xxx
> sftp> bye
>
> Bob Harris

That's the ticket!!!!
Although I had to modify the sftp line to include "me@that..." both
methods work nicely. Thank you very much.
GW

Geoff Welsh

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Mar 23, 2005, 1:27:38 AM3/23/05

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jes....@hexduxhmp.org wrote:

>> Geoff Welsh <geoff...@some.rr.com> wrote:
>> My Unix knowledge is basicly one small cheat sheet with very specific cases.
>

> Does your small cheat sheet contain the command 'man'? :)

No but it has "dude".....(lol...sorry)
Ah yes, I have "man - gets the manual for an application"

GW