Secure Copy is a UNIX standard used to transfer files from one computer to another. He's how to use the function in macOS, all via the Terminal window. Before personal computers, there were mainframe ...

Secure connections can be even more secure or even less troublesome if you use a key pair and do it right. Both ssh and scp work fine when used with your account password. But when you use a ...

It's story time here in the Paranoid Penguin. Don't worry—the story is a preface to the nuts-and-bolts sort of stuff you've come to expect in LJ. In fact, there are so many nuts and bolts to play with ...

I frequently find myself in the situation where I'm SSH'd to a server and I want to copy a remote file to my local machine. Usually I end up opening up a local terminal and writing out the SCP command ...

The secure shell, ssh, and its companion, scp, are tools that I use more or less on a daily basis. Being able to move files between machines without having to setup SAMBA or NFS is very handy when ...

It seemed like a simple enough task, write a PowerShell script to SCP files to a Unix server. There is just one problem. The .NET Framework doesn’t have a native way for doing this. That is why when I ...

Native support for Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) isn't in PowerShell, but that doesn't mean it's not capable. By using a free community module called Posh-SSH, we can transfer files via SCP just as ...