NAME

scp - copy files over SSH

SYNOPSIS

scp [ -prqv ] [ -P port ] [ -i keyfile ] [ -l limit ] [ -S program ] source ... target

DESCRIPTION

scp copies files between hosts. A remote file is written [user@]host:path; a path without a host is a local file. The connection is made by dbclient(1), which asks for a password or uses a key as it always does, and the remote host runs scp too.

-p

Keep the files' times and modes.

-r

Copy directories and what they hold.

-q

Show no progress.

-v

Have dbclient say what it does.

-P port

The remote port.

-i keyfile

The key to log in with (see dbclient(1)).

-l limit

Use at most limit Kbit/s, a whole number.

-S program

Connect with program instead of /opt/amix/bin/dbclient.

-o option

An option for dbclient, as its -o takes.

EXAMPLES

$ scp notes.txt user@server:/tmp
$ scp -r user@server:src .

SEE ALSO

dbclient(1), dropbear(8)

NOTES

This is the original scp protocol. From another system with OpenSSH 9.0 or later, whose scp uses SFTP unless told otherwise, copy to and from this system with scp -O. File times are kept to the second.