Re: [PLUG] scp help

[David Colon <dcolon@dcolon.org>]

> So I voluntered to help some research person collecting NTP data.
> S/he sent me a key which i saved in ~/.ssh
> Created since i didn't have one, a ~/.ssh/config file
> Placed the line IdentiyFile ./.ssh/xxxxxx
> Now when I so to scp using the following:
> scp -i xxxxxx myFile user@EduSite/dir1/fileName
> Immediatly I get the scp usage message

Hi,
You need a colon in between the target and target path.

scp -i mykey myfile username@hostname:/path/to/target

David
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