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Sunday, October 6, 2013

Copy files between Windows and Linux.

This is how you do it-

File transfers can be done using PSCP (Putty Secure CoPy) or by using PSFTP (Putty Secure File Transfer Protocol).

The easiest way i find is via PSCP (Putty Secure CoPy)-

1.  Download Putty here- http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
2. PSCP must be launched from within a DOS box - Before running PSCP, you need to set the path variable.  At the DOS command prompt, type-

set PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY

(Change the path as per your directory structure.)

3. Type Path to check if it is been set correctly.
4.  To copy a Windows file to Linux system, at the DOS prompt, type-

pscp C:/ <full file name on windows>  root@<IP Address of Linux box>:/root

:/root will copy the files under root on linux box. Change as per your needs.

5. The reverse works as well (copy Linux file to Windows)

            pscp root@<IP Address of Linux box>:/root  c:/

Cheers!
Abhay

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