I have a file on my desktop and I need to get it onto another server, but I have no means of getting it there, i.e. email/usb or any way like that.
The server is on the same network as me.
I have heard of a way that the file can be copied via the command line.
Would anyone have any information on this and if so could you please help me?
Not sure whether you have command line access to that server or not? If yes, are you accessing it via telnet or via ssh?
If ssh, you should be able to transfer the file via SCP (secure copy), since it uses the same ssh connection you use to get your cli. If you want to transfer your file from a Windows environment, you may want to look at WinSCP, else do a man scp on your Linux or Unix server and, assuming you have it, you'll get the hang of it... it's not complicated.
If ssh is not an option, then you depend on the server having some service available for you to transfer the file, most obvious one being FTP.
Does that help?
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I have a file on a remote server that I can connect to via ssh. I would like to copy the file from the remote server at the path: '/home/example.txt' to my computer's desktop.
Should I be using wget, sftp, ftp, or simply rm?
Bonus points if you know a good resource for UNIX documentation, since google's results were not great.
Use scp(1):
~$ scp user#host:/home/example.txt .
None of them, you should use scp
scp or rcp if you don't want/need to be secured. Or alternatively rsync will be nicer for anything more complicated with remote file transferring on a regular basis.
For the documentation, look at the man pages, ex: man scp. Or online at
http://linux.die.net/man/1/scp
http://linux.die.net/man/1/rcp
http://linux.die.net/man/1/rsync
Try Filezilla Utility
More info on http://filezilla-project.org/
I have a legacy system which can create files visible in WebDav as an output. I'd like to trigger a BizTalk orchestration receive port when a file matching a filter appears - so a lot like the standard File adapter, but for WebDav.
I found the BizTalk Scheduled Task Adapter, which can pull in a file by HTTP, but it looks abandoned, poorly documented, and out of date.
So, how is it done? Can I use the standard HTTP adapter perhaps?
If you're able access the WebDAV via a UNC path from the BizTalk server the File Adapter should do the trick.
Have you tried to assign a drive letter to the WebDav folder?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV
We've had to go with a workaround on this where we made a completely unrelated separate process to make a copy of the file from the legacy system appear in a Samba share, which we in turn attach to with an ordinary FILE adapter.
I have a weird problem. I'm using pscp.exe from within a C# program (with process.start) to upload files to an SFTP server. Now I have set up a new server with the same program, where I upload to the same SFTP server as before, but It runs incredibly slow in the new server.
The weird thing is that when I try uploading the files manually via FileZilla, the upload goes as fast as expected, but not when using the program.
Can anyone explain this? Am I missing something obvious like a windows setting or something?
SSH supports what we call pipelining - sending multiple SSH packets without waiting response to each packet. OpenSSH supports this functionality, while Putty doesn't (at least didn't until recently). That's what you observe. Another reason is choice of algorithms. If AES is negotiated, it's faster than DES and 3DES used by default by older applications.
I ended up rewriting the SFTP transfer to use the .Net wrapper for WinSCP in stead. The solution was fast, and the file transfer also. Here's a link to the documentation.
Uploading files using WinSCP is like 10 times faster.
To do that from command line, first you got to add the winscp.com file to your %PATH%. It's not a top-level domain, but an executable .com file, which is located in your WinSCP installation directory.
Then just issue a simple command and your file will be uploaded much faster putty ever could:
WinSCP.com /command "open sftp://username:password#example.com:22" "put your_large_file.zip /var/www/somedirectory/" "exit"
And make sure your check the synchronize folders feature, which is basically what rsync does, so you won't ever want to use pscp.exe again.
WinSCP.com /command "help synchronize"
Filezilla can use multiple concurrent connections and reuse open connections. I believe PSCP is a relatively simple application.
A library like SFTP.NET will probably yield better results than running a child pscp process.
It would also help to use the ZipPackage to compress the files when sending them.
How can I read a text file resides in a remote machine? There is no share exists in that machine and I am not allowed to create any share or file in the remote machine. Also I am not allowed to run any client program in the remote machine. My program is a ASP.net in C# residing in a IIS webserver. For linux machine we used ssh connections and file reads are easy. Is there something by default available in windows similiar to it ?
Thanks,
Sreejith
The first question to ask is if there's a good business reason to read that file. If yes, the IT people will have to allow you a reasonable solution to the problem.
I have frequently used SFTP (secure FTP) for this kind of problem. Unfortunately SFTP is not part of Windows, but there are free and low-cost SFTP servers available. Here's a list from Wikipedia
Explain to IT why you need access to that file and discuss options including SFTP. If you have a valid business reason for this and they will "not let you because of policy", it's the job of your project manager or boss to clear out that roadblock. Ask them to help.
Finally, consider whether it's practical for the file on the remote machine to be pushed to you instead of you pulling it. If you can setup a file share on your PC, ask them to setup a job on the remote server that copies the file to your file share every time it is changed.
You could try accessing the Admin share of the machine. Windows by default created a share for all disks (named C$, D$ etc). But in that case the application you write should be running with the credentials of a user with rights to that share ((local) administrators have sufficient rights to do that).
If that doesn't work you need to create a share or install software to get files from that machine (like FTP). This is all because of security, it's a good thing you are not able to just read a file from any machine...
I have done this many time with the Remote File port 34
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_numbers
I just want to transfer a file from ftp server to unix folder, --this is stright forward.
if the file doesn't exist on the ftp server, then the script needs to run recursively until it finds the file. Please let me know how do i get that file.
please remember script has to run on ftp server.
Thanks
CK
I'd mount the FTP server with curlftpfs http://curlftpfs.sourceforge.net and then use it like it were a local file system — for example, run find(1).
You need to write a program to automate your FTP session. You can either write your own custom FTP client, not that hard if you know a few things about network programming, or write a script to automate a session for an existing client. For the latter approach, I suggest using Expect if you are proficient with TCL, or PyExpect if you prefer Python. Expect is a library designed to automate interactive tasks like downloading a file with FTP.