dir flag for sftp get command?

[Chris Aitken]

Taavi Burns wrote:

>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
>
holy shit - that was a wild ride:

<BIG snip>

spmcontax.doc        100% |**************************| 24576       00:00
spmdiary.doc         100% |**************************|   150 KB    00:00
spmtimesheet.doc     100% |**************************|   127 KB    00:00
writeoff.doc         100% |**************************| 10752       00:00
6monthreview         100% |**************************|  6067       00:00
[chris-RMRJWkH6aXE at public.gmane.org chris]$

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

>>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.
>
As my daughter would say when she was six, "Instresting" (sic)

: )

Thanks Taavi and Chris. Mission accomplished.

[other] Chris

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