dir flag for sftp get command?

[Taavi Burns]

On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 02:41:49PM -0400, Chris Aitken wrote:
> When I enter the correct password I get,
> 
> [chris-RMRJWkH6aXE at public.gmane.org chris]$ scp -r chris-Q0ErXNX1RuZALGUKhjNAFw at public.gmane.org:/home/chris 
> chris-RMRJWkH6aXE at public.gmane.org:/home/chris/p733buona800
> chris-Q0ErXNX1RuZALGUKhjNAFw at public.gmane.org's password:
> ssh: connect to host a800 port 22: Connection refused
> lost connection

It looks like there's no sshd running on host a800.  But, since you're
running on host a800, there's no reason to need that.  I think you're
looking for a command more like:
scp -r chris-Q0ErXNX1RuZALGUKhjNAFw at public.gmane.org:/home/chris /home/chris/p733buona800

IIRC, you'll need to have created p733buona800 already.

> I did get ftp to do this once (though in this case ftp is not present on 
> this debian box, and is only on the rh8.0 on 7.3 box) -- I tricked it 
> with wildcards or forward slashes or something but, alas, I didn't 
> document (at least somewhere that I could find later).

Um...ftp can't do what you're doing here.  ftp is only from your local
machine to/from the server.  The scp command you're specifying is moving
a file from host A to host B, while you're running on host C.  (now C may
just happen to be the same as A or B, but not necessarily)

You don't need to specify any hosts if you just want to copy files locally.
scp acts like cp when both paths are local.

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