

test.txt showme:/home/skipworthy/enable/ For example: skipworthy ~ scp -P 2020 -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa. The available connection options are the same as with ssh. I can get a file from a remote location, too: skipworthy ~ scp showme:/home/skipworthy/enable/demofoo password: enable/foo/testfoo password:Įasy as pie. I use it to quickly move files to a remote filesystem from the shell: skipworthy ~ scp. The usefulness of scp lies in its simplicity. It is unclear when it will cease to be available in future releases of OpenSSH, though it's hard to imagine that it will be dropped anytime soon. Recently, OpenSSH developers have indicated that they consider scp to be deprecated (they believe it is "Outdated, inflexible and not easily fixed"). It includes several common tools for secure remote access, including key generation, scp, and sftp (a secure version of FTP, which we'll get to in a bit). OpenSSH is still maintained under the BSD license and is available for a wide range of platforms. OpenSSH started as a BSD fork of the original SSH secure communications protocol, which has since become re-licensed as "non-free" and thus not generally available for Linux. Secure Copy, or scp, is a secure version of the older rcp tool (which is still used, but less common) included in the OpenSSH suite of tools.
