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How To Use PSCP Command On Windows

The document explains how to use the pscp command to transfer files securely over SSH on Windows. It describes downloading and installing pscp from Putty, using basic commands like pscp to download a single file or multiple files from a remote server, and using options like -r to recursively copy directories. The pscp command allows users to transfer files securely between local and remote systems running SSH/SCP.

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How To Use PSCP Command On Windows

The document explains how to use the pscp command to transfer files securely over SSH on Windows. It describes downloading and installing pscp from Putty, using basic commands like pscp to download a single file or multiple files from a remote server, and using options like -r to recursively copy directories. The pscp command allows users to transfer files securely between local and remote systems running SSH/SCP.

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How To Use PSCP Command On Windows?


25/01/2019 by İsmail Baydan

pscp command is an SCP protocol implementation where we can transfer and copy files and folders securely over a network with the
SSH connection. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install and use pscp tool on Windows operating system.

Download Pscp
pscp command can be downloaded from the following link. There are different installation types. pscp can be installed in standalone or
with the putty installer package. I prefer Putty installation package where path environment configuration also done automatically.

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html

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Download Pscp

As we can see there is 32 and 64 bit versions. I will use 64 bit because my Windows is 64 bit.

Install Pscp
We will install the downloaded putty 64 bit msi package regular Windows Next->Next style like below.

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Install Pscp

Help and Options


If we need to list all available options and help information we can just issue pscp command to the command line or MSDOS like below.

> pscp

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Help and Options

We can see that the usage or syntax of the pscp command is provided the start of the help information. Also, all available options are
printed after the Options: part.

Download or Get File From Remote Server


We will start with a simple example where we will download or get a single file from a remote server or system. As stated previously we
will use SSH protocol for connection and transfer. We will just provide the remote system user name, IP address or hostname and the file
with its absolute path. We will also provide the file name we want to save locally.

psc
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> pscp [email protected]:/home/ismail/pass pass.txt

Download or Get File From Remote Server

We can see that for the first time we will connect a server we need to approve the remote server puıblic key. Then we provide the
password for the user ismail. After we authenticated successfully the transfer of the file is completed successfully.

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Download or Get Multiple Files From Remote Server


In the previous example, we have downloaded or got a single file from the remote server. We can also download and get multiple files
from a remote system according to their path or file extension.

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In this example we will download all gzipped file with the gz extension those resides /home/ismail . . means we will save to the current
working directory.

> pscp [email protected]:/home/ismail/*.gz .

Download or Get Multiple Files From Remote Server

Upload or Put File To Remote Server


We can also upload or put given file to the remote SSH server with the pscp command. We will first provide the file name and then
provide the remote system user name, IP address or Host name and the path we want to put.

pscp  FILE USER@IPADDRESS:/PATH/FILE

> pscp pass.txt [email protected]:/home/ismail/pass.txt

Upload or Put File To Remote Server

Upload or Put Files To Remote Server

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We can also put multiple files to the remote server with pscp command. We will provide the file names before the remote server, user
information. In this example, we will copy local files pass.txt, config.sys to the remote server.

pscp  FILE1 FILE2 ... FILEN  USER@IPADDRESS:/PATH/FILE

> pscp pass.txt config.sys  [email protected]:/home/ismail/

Upload or Put Files To Remote Server

Download or Get Directories Recursively From Remote Server


If we want to get remote directories and download local we need to use recursive options which is -r.

> pscp -r [email protected]:/home/ismail/ .

Upload or Put Directories Recursively To Remote Server


We can also send or upload local directories to the remote server. We will again use the -r option.

> pscp -r Downloads [email protected]:/home/ismail/Downloads/

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We will put local directory  name Downloads to the remote server 192.168.142.144 and folder /home/ismail/Downloads

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