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windowslinuxfile-uploadcommand
user743234
user743234

Reputation:

How to upload a file from Windows machine to Linux machine using command lines via PuTTy?

I'm running Windows on my laptop at the moment and I want to upload files from my laptop to my uni's general purpose server, which runs both Linux and MacOSX.

So, I already opened up a connection to that server using PuTTy. But I failed to trying to upload a file from my laptop to that server using the commands guided in this website: http://news.metaparadigma.de/linux-upload-and-download-via-ssh-terminal-226/. Seems like it only works for Linux to Linux machine. It didn't recognize the Windows path that I entered (i.e. C:\a.txt).

How can I do this?

Upvotes: 22

Views: 124484

Answers (4)

Anubioz
Anubioz

Reputation: 495

Pscp.exe is painfully slow.

Uploading files using WinSCP is like 10 times faster.

So, to do that from command line, first you got to add the winscp.com file to your %PATH%. It's not a top-level domain, but an executable .com file, which is located in your WinSCP installation directory.

Then just issue a simple command and your file will be uploaded much faster putty ever could:

WinSCP.com /command "open sftp://username:[email protected]:22" "put your_large_file.zip /var/www/somedirectory/" "exit"

And make sure your check the synchronize folders feature, which is basically what rsync does, so you won't ever want to use pscp.exe again.

WinSCP.com /command "help synchronize"

Upvotes: 4

Gaurav Komawar
Gaurav Komawar

Reputation: 1

Better and quicker approach without any software to download.

  • Open command prompt and follow steps mentioned below
  • cd path/from/where/file/istobe/copied
  • ftp (serverip or name)
  • It will ask for Server(AIX) User: (username)
  • It will ask for password : (password)
  • cd path/where/file/istobe/copied
  • pwd (to check current path)
  • mput (directory name which is to be copied)

This should work.

Upvotes: 0

gsjha
gsjha

Reputation: 108

Use putty. Put install directory path in environment values (PATH), and restart your PC if required.

Open cmd (command prompt) and type

C:/> pscp "C:\Users/gsjha/Desktop/example.txt" user@host:/home/

It'll be copied to the system.

Upvotes: 1

Devin M
Devin M

Reputation: 9752

Try using SCP on Windows to transfer files, you can download SCP from Putty's website. Then try running:

pscp.exe filename.extension [email protected]:directory/subdirectory

There is a full length guide here.

Upvotes: 36

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