scp Secure Copy We also have a command sftp that works on port 22. Since sftp is interactive it is recommended over scp. scp /home/staff/smauney/public/diff1 smauney@shaula.csit.parkland.edu:~smauney/public/diff1 This is the command to securely copy a group of files from a remote host to andromeda.parkland.cc.il.us If you want to specify the destination, put a directory etc. after the colon bash-2.03$ scp /var/apache/htdocs/spam/*.html mauney@andromeda.parkland.cc.il.us: mauney@andromeda.parkland.cc.il.us's password: stop.html 100% |*****************************************| 1084 00:00 anti.html 100% |*****************************************| 665 00:00 from.html 100% |*****************************************| 537 00:00 index.html 100% |*****************************************| 529 00:00 report.html 100% |*****************************************| 161 00:00 state.html 100% |*****************************************| 1060 00:00 stop.html 100% |*****************************************| 1084 00:00 template.html 100% |*****************************************| 200 00:00 whois.html 100% |*****************************************| 161 00:00 scp -pr /home/staff/smauney/public/awk smauney@shaula.csit.parkland.edu:~smauney/public/ scp -pr /home/staff/smauney/public/grep smauney@shaula.csit.parkland.edu:~smauney/public/ scp -pr /home/staff/smauney/public/* smauney@shaula.csit.parkland.edu:~smauney/public/ scp -pr /home/staff/smauney/public_html/* smauney@shaula.csit.parkland.edu:~smauney/public_html/ scp -pr /home/staff/smauney/public_html/* smauney@shaula.csit.parkland.edu:~smauney/public_html/ scp -pr /home/staff/smauney/bin/* smauney@shaula.csit.parkland.edu:~smauney/bin/ CSC128: Using scp to move files securely