I need to send multiple files to multiple location, but can't find the proper way.
e.g. I need to send file1 to location1 and file2 to location2. This is what I am doing:
scp file1 file2 [email protected]:/location1 /location2
But this is not working. Any suggestion?
It's not possible to send to multiple remote locations with a single scp command. It can accommodate multiple source files but only one destination. Using just the scp command itself, it must be run twice.
scp file1 file2 [email protected]:/location1
scp file1 file2 [email protected]:/location2
It is possible to turn this into a "one-liner" by running a for loop. In bash for example:
for REMOTE in "[email protected]:/location1" "[email protected]:/location2"; do scp file1 file2 $REMOTE; done
scp still runs multiple times but the loop takes care of the iteration. That said, I find it easier to run the command once, hit the Up Arrow (which brings the original command back up in most environments) and just change the remote location and resend.
you can put your scp command in .sh file and execute scp commands with the user name and password in one line
vim ~/fileForSCP.sh
#!/bin/sh
sshpass -p {password} scp file1 [email protected]:/location1
sshpass -p {password} scp file2 [email protected]:/location2
sshpass -p {password} scp file3 [email protected]:/location3
...
sshpass -p {password} scp file{n} [email protected]:/location{n}
and then:
chmod 777 ~/fileForSCP.sh
~/fileForSCP.sh
You cannot do it with single scp command. Just use scp twice:
scp file1 [email protected]:/location1
scp file2 [email protected]:/location2
you can build the desired remote tree structure using sym links for example
ln -s file1 target/location1/file1 ... etc
after this you can use a dereferencing copy to push these files
rsync -rL target -e ssh user@host:/tmp
Hi there is a Hack to go about this query since SCP targets only single Destination, but warn you this might be a bit Naive but gets your work done.
use the && operator between two SCP calls
I use it like this:
scp fileTosend userName1@IPAddress_1:path/to/folder && scp fileToSend userName2@IPAddress_2:path/to/folder
This will simultaneously send the data to both the destinations.
I've had the same issue. i did solve it somewhat by adding a second part where an ssh connection is made and the files are moved from /var/tmp to their target dir. It's a bit hacky but it works and if you put it in a bash script it is only a single line
You can use an sftp batch (if you are OK using sftp instead of scp). This way you establish a single ssh connection and do all the transfers over it.
E.g.:
sftp -b - [email protected] <<EOF
put file1 /location1
put file2 /location2
EOF
scponce and thenssha copy command... doesscporsftpactually have that ability built in, to command the remote computer to make a copy on itself? Of course, that does introduce a race condition,so you might actually copy over-the-network to a unique temporary location, then have the remote copy from there into all the desired destinations.scpis not a programming language.