| SCP(1) | General Commands Manual | SCP(1) | 
scp —
| scp | [ -346ABCOpqRrsTv] [-ccipher] [-Dsftp_server_path] [-Fssh_config] [-iidentity_file] [-Jdestination] [-llimit] [-ossh_option] [-Pport] [-Sprogram] [-Xsftp_option] source ...
      target | 
scp copies files between hosts on a network.
scp uses the SFTP protocol over a
    ssh(1) connection for data
    transfer, and uses the same authentication and provides the same security as
    a login session.
scp will ask for passwords or passphrases
    if they are needed for authentication.
The source and target
    may be specified as a local pathname, a remote host with optional path in
    the form [user@]host:[path], or a URI in the form
    scp:// [user@]host[:port][/path]. Local file names
    can be made explicit using absolute or relative pathnames to avoid
    scp treating file names containing ‘:’
    as host specifiers.
When copying between two remote hosts, if the URI format is used,
    a port cannot be specified on the
    target if the -R option is
    used.
The options are as follows:
-3-O flag), this option selects batch mode for the
      second host as scp cannot ask for passwords or
      passphrases for both hosts. This mode is the default.-4scp to use IPv4 addresses only.-6scp to use IPv6 addresses only.-A-B-C-C flag to
      ssh(1) to enable
    compression.-c
    cipher-D
    sftp_server_path-F
    ssh_configssh. This option is directly passed to
      ssh(1).-i
    identity_file-J
    destinationscp
      connection to the jump host described by destination
      and then establishing a TCP forwarding to the ultimate destination from
      there. Multiple jump hops may be specified separated by comma characters.
      This is a shortcut to specify a ProxyJump
      configuration directive. This option is directly passed to
      ssh(1).-l
    limit-O-o
    ssh_optionssh in the format
      used in ssh_config(5).
      This is useful for specifying options for which there is no separate
      scp command-line flag. For full details of the
      options listed below, and their possible values, see
      ssh_config(5).
    
    -P
    port-p is already reserved for preserving the times
      and mode bits of the file.-p-q-Rscp there. This requires that
      scp running on the origin host can authenticate to
      the destination host without requiring a password.-rscp
      follows symbolic links encountered in the tree traversal.-S
    program-Tscp checks that
      the received filenames match those requested on the command-line to
      prevent the remote end from sending unexpected or unwanted files. Because
      of differences in how various operating systems and shells interpret
      filename wildcards, these checks may cause wanted files to be rejected.
      This option disables these checks at the expense of fully trusting that
      the server will not send unexpected filenames.-vscp and
      ssh(1) to print debugging
      messages about their progress. This is helpful in debugging connection,
      authentication, and configuration problems.-X
    sftp_optionnrequests=valuebuffer=valuescp utility exits 0 on success,
  and >0 if an error occurs.
scp is based on the rcp program in
  BSD source code from the Regents of the University of
  California.
Since OpenSSH 9.0, scp has used the SFTP
    protocol for transfers by default.
-O flag)
  requires execution of the remote user's shell to perform
  glob(3) pattern matching. This
  requires careful quoting of any characters that have special meaning to the
  remote shell, such as quote characters.
| December 16 2022 | NetBSD 10.1 |