Something like
ssh root#host "ls -l"
works fine
But when I'm trying
ssh root#host "showrgst"
I'm getting "command not found". And yes, I don't have showrgst command on the host I'm connected from.
How to solve this?
you need to install showrgst in the remote server and make sure the PATH env variable has the path to showrgst.
firstly, you can locate what executable is for this command
$ which showrgst
for example, it is executable script from $HOME/bin/showrgst.
So, you need to copy this file to server by means of scp -
$ scp ~/bin/showrgst youserver.com:/home/username/bin/
if this command is executable of some package existing in repositories linux disto, you can install this on your server
I want to be able to transfer a directory and all its files from my local machine to my remote one. I dont use SCP much so I am a bit confused.
I am connected to my remote machine via ssh and I typed in the command
scp name127.0.0.1:local/machine/path/to/directory filename
the local/machine/path/to/directory is the value i got from using pwd in the desired directory on my local host.
I am currently getting the error
No such file or directory
Looks like you are trying to copy to a local machine with that command.
An example scp looks more like the command below:
Copy the file "foobar.txt" from the local host to a remote host
$ scp foobar.txt your_username#remotehost.edu:/some/remote/directory
scp "the_file" your_username#the_remote_host:the/path/to/the/directory
to send a directory:
Copy the directory "foo" from the local host to a remote host's directory "bar"
$ scp -r foo your_username#remotehost.edu:/some/remote/directory/bar
scp -r "the_directory_to_copy" your_username#the_remote_host:the/path/to/the/directory/to/copy/to
and to copy from remote host to local:
Copy the file "foobar.txt" from a remote host to the local host
$ scp your_username#remotehost.edu:foobar.txt /your/local/directory
scp your_username#the_remote_host:the_file /your/local/directory
and to include port number:
Copy the file "foobar.txt" from a remote host with port 8080 to the local host
$ scp -P 8080 your_username#remotehost.edu:foobar.txt /your/local/directory
scp -P port_number your_username#the_remote_host:the_file /your/local/directory
From a windows machine to linux machine using putty
pscp -r <directory_to_copy> username#remotehost:/path/to/directory/on/remote/host
i had a kind of similar problem. i tried to copy from a server to my desktop and always got the same message for the local path. the problem was, i already was logged in to my server per ssh, so it was searching for the local path in the server path.
solution: i had to log out and run the command again and it worked
In my case I had to specify the Port Number using
scp -P 2222 username#hostip:/directory/ /localdirectory/
Your problem can be caused by different things. I will provide you three possible scenarios in Linux:
The File location
When you use scp name , you mean that your File name is in Home directory. When it is in Home but inside in another Folder, for example, my_folder, you should write:
scp /home/my-username/my_folder/name my-username#127.0.0.1:/Path....
You File Permission
You must know the File Permission your File has. If you have Read-only you should change it.
To change the Permission:
As Root ,sudo caja ( the default file manager for the MATE Desktop) or another file manager ,then with you Mouse , right-click to the File name , select Properties + Permissions
and change it on Group and Other to Read and write .
Or with chmod .
You Port Number
Maybe you remote machine or Server can only communicate with a Port Number, so you should write -P and the Port Number.
scp -P 22 /home/my-username/my_folder/name my-usernamee#127.0.0.1 /var/www/html
You also need to make sure what is in the .bashrc file of the user.
I've also got this ridiculous error because I put cd and ls commands in there, as it was mean to let them see the current files & directories when the user is has logged in from ssh.
The filename should go at the end of the path to the directory. That is, it should be the full path to the file. You are doing this from a command line, and you have a working directory for that command line (on your local machine), this is the directory that your file will be downloaded to. The final argument in your command is only what you want the name of the file to be. So, first, change directory to where you want the file to land. I'm doing this from git bash on a Windows machine, so it looks like this:
cd C:\Users\myUserName\Downloads
Now that I have my working directory where I want the file to go:
scp -i 'c:\Users\myUserName\.ssh\AWSkeyfile.pem' ec2-user#xx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/home/ec2-user/IwantThisFile.tar IgotThisFile.tar
Or, in your case:
cd /local/path/where/you/want/the/file/to/land
scp name#127.0.0.1:/local/machine/path/to/directory/filename filename
Be sure the folder from where you send the file does not contain space !
I was trying to send a file to a remote server from my windows machine from VS code terminal, and I got this error even if the file was here.
It's because the folder where the file was contained space in its name...
If you want to copy everything in a Folder + have a special Port use this one.
Works for me on Ubuntu 18.04 and a local machine with Mac OS X.
-r for recursive
-P for Port
scp -rP 1234 /Your_Directory/Source_Folder/ username#yourdomain.com:/target/folder
As #Astariul said, path to the file might cause this bug.
In addition, any parent directory which contains non-ASCII character, for example Chinese, will cause this.
In that case, you should rename you parent directory
This happened to me and I solved it.
This problem can be because the file you are trying to get is not existing (typo in the name of file or folder?) or because it is invisible to the user that you enter in scp.
The problem in my case was that the files that I wanted to get from remote machine were created by another user (root on my case), so, those files were invisible
To fix, I did:
ssh myuser#myserver
chown myuser:myuser myfile
exit
scp mysuer#myserver:/home/myuser/myfile /localfolder/myfile
For me on my mac,
I just have to run the command from my MAC terminal
scp -r root#ip_addres:/root/source /Users/path/Desktop/others/destination
I need to rsync log files like this:
rsync --progress -rvze ssh name#host:/path/to/folder/*.log
When I run this command though, I get an error:
rsync: getcwd(): No such file or directory (2)
No such file or directory? That's odd. So I try to ssh directly:
ssh name#host
it prompts to enter my name, I do, then I type
cd /path/to/folder
which works fine (log files are present).
I double checked my ssh keys, everything seems to be in order there, but for some reason I can't ssh into a subfolder on this host, so there's no way I can get rsync working correctly.
EDIT:
Running the identical rsync command on my Mac, it works fine. Running it in my ubuntu EC2 instance is still failing.
Are you sure there are any log files at all? If not this command will fail with the 'No such file or directory'
Rather use:
rsync --progress --include='*.log' -rvze ssh name#host: /path/to/folder/ local_folder
The 'direct' ssh syntax you use in your second test is not supported:
ssh name#host:/path/to/folder/
because it will use host:/path/to/folder/ as the hostname.
I am using ~/.ssh/config file to set my ssh options.
I want to specify different settings for scp and ssh to the same host. Is it possible to do it?
I went through the documentation, but couldn't a way to do it.
I'd make a second config file, ~/.ssh/scp_config, and then use a shell alias for scp with the -F option to specify the config file:
alias scp="scp -F ~/.ssh/scp_config`
(This is an untested zsh alias; I don't know how different Bash alias' are, but the idea should be similar. Note also that this may still require you to use scp -F <file> in scripts).
I want to run a script remotely. But the system doesn't recognize the path. It complains that "no such file or directory". Am I using it right?
ssh kev#server1 `./test/foo.sh`
You can do:
ssh user#host 'bash -s' < /path/script.sh
Backticks will run the command on the local shell and put the results on the command line. What you're saying is 'execute ./test/foo.sh and then pass the output as if I'd typed it on the commandline here'.
Try the following command, and make sure that thats the path from your home directory on the remote computer to your script.
ssh kev#server1 './test/foo.sh'
Also, the script has to be on the remote computer. What this does is essentially log you into the remote computer with the listed command as your shell. You can't run a local script on a remote computer like this (unless theres some fun trick I don't know).
If you want to execute a local script remotely without saving that script remotely you can do it like this:
cat local_script.sh | ssh user#remotehost 'bash -'
It works like a charm for me.
I do that even from Windows to Linux given that you have MSYS installed on your Windows computer.
I don't know if it's possible to run it just like that.
I usually first copy it with scp and then log in to run it.
scp foo.sh user#host:~
ssh user#host
./foo.sh
I was able to invoke a shell script using this command:
ssh ${serverhost} "./sh/checkScript.ksh"
Of course, checkScript.ksh must exist in the $HOME/sh directory.
Make the script executable by the user "Kev" and then remove the try it running through the command
sh kev#server1 /test/foo.sh