Share File with SCP command

Share File with SCP command

In this post, We will learn how to share file from one computer to other with scp command. SCP is relatively secure and fast way to send a large file from one computer to other.

Terminologies

source-computer: It is the system which contains files which we want to share.
dest-computer: It is the system on which we want share file

Requirements 

We need the following information of the dest-computer in order to send file
username: Username of the destination computer(dest-computer)
You can get username of dest-computer by running below command on dest-computer

 whoami  

ip-address: ip-address of the destination computer(dest-computer)
You can get ip-address of dest-computer by running below command on dest-computer.  ipaddress is inet addr of wlp4s0.

 ifconfig  

password: If dest-computer has password in that case scp command will also ask password.

SCP-Command

 scp path-of-source username@ip-address:path-of-destination 

path-of-source: Path of file on source-computer
path-of-destination: Path on dest-computer where you want to store file

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