Either of these commands let you securely transfer files between computers, but there are good reasons to know them both.

Thanks to the scp command, you can securely copy files to and from remote machines with ease. ... Jack Wallen is an award-winning writer for TechRepublic, The New Stack, and Linux New Media.

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With Linux there are so many ways to synchronize and/or backup files over a network. For many, rsync and scp are the de facto standard. There is, of course, another option–one you’ve likely ...

Since most Linux distributions have native SSH support and SCP usually just works, SCP is an easy-to-use method to transfer files back and forth. To use SCP with the Posh-SSH module, we first need to ...

If you have multiple Linux machines on your network and are looking for ways to transfer files between them, here are five tried and true options - including my favorite, Samba.

SCP enables file transfers to and from SSH servers in both directions. SCP is based on the RCP (Remote Copy) command (part of BSD's r-commands) which was originally used when BSD came to ...