scp with port number specified

Question

I\'m trying to scp a file from a remote server to my local machine. Only port 80 is accessible.

I tried:

scp -p 80 username@www.myserver.com:/root/file.t         


        

Answer 1

You know what's cooler than -P? nothing

If you use this server more than a few times, setup/create a ~/.ssh/config file with an entry like:

Host www.myserver.com
    Port 80

or

Host myserver myserver80 short any.name.u.want yes_anything well-within-reason
    HostName www.myserver.com
    Port 80
    User username

Then you can use:

scp username@www.myserver.com:/root/file.txt .

or

scp short:/root/file.txt .

You can use anything on the "Host" line with ssh, scp, rsync, git & more

There are MANY configuration option that you can use in config files, see:

man ssh_config

Answer 2

Copying file to host: scp SourceFile remoteuser@remotehost:/directory/TargetFile

Copying file from host: scp user@host:/directory/SourceFile TargetFile

Copying directory recursively from host: scp -r user@host:/directory/SourceFolder TargetFolder

NOTE: If the host is using a port other than port 22, you can specify it with the -P option: scp -P 2222 user@host:/directory/SourceFile TargetFile

Answer 3

scp help tells us that port is specified by uppercase P.

~$ scp
usage: scp [-12346BCpqrv] [-c cipher] [-F ssh_config] [-i identity_file]
           [-l limit] [-o ssh_option] [-P port] [-S program]
           [[user@]host1:]file1 ... [[user@]host2:]file2

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

One additional hint. Place the '-P' option after the scp command, no matter whether the machine you are ssh-ing into is the second one (aka destination). Example:

scp -P 2222 /absolute_path/source-folder/some-file user@example.com:/absolute_path/destination-folder

Answer 5

for use another port on scp command use capital P like this

scp -P port-number source-file/directory user@domain:/destination

ya ali

Answer 6

if you need copy local file to server (specify port )

scp -P 3838 /the/source/file username@server.com:/destination/file