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Jun 152010
 

Specify a port with the scp command

Answer:

If you want to use scp to copy file to remote machine, but that ssh server is listening at port other than 22, you can use the following command syntax.

# scp -P 6000 test.txt john@remoteserver:/home/john/

Please notes it is -P, not -p.

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