using SCP: how to set working directory?

If the file is on your local machine, use 'cd' to go to the directory the file is in.

The general syntax for scp is

scp user@hostath_to_original user@hostath_to_copy

You can leave off the user@host: if the file is on the local machine. So for example to transfer a file named file1, from host1 to the desktop of the machine I'm currently using, I would do this

scp crackpip@host1:~/file1 ~/Desktop

If your not familiar with man pages, you should get used to them. Many of them read like stereo instructions, but as you get more familiar with the terminal you get used to them.

For example type:
man scp

crackpip

 

if you aren't scripting it and want a gui...here it is.

http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/