vik-y
5/15/2015 - 9:01 PM

Transfer file using ssh from Koding VM

Transfer file using ssh from Koding VM

After you are done configuring SSH: 

To log in: 
First you have to make sure that your ssh-agent uses your public key. For that run 
eval "$(ssh-agent -s)" in the terminal from which you want to SSH

After doing that
To get ssh access: 
ssh username@kodingurl

To copy files from/to server:
scp /tmp/file user@example.com:/home/name/dir

(where /tmp/file can be replaced with any local file and /home/name/dir with any remote directory)

To copy from the remote computer to the local one, type, in the local computer:

scp user@example.com:/home/name/dir/file /tmp