scp with port number specified
I'm trying to scp a file from a remote server to my local machine. Only port 80 is accessible.
I tried:
scp -p 80 username@www.myserver.com:/root/file.txt .
but got this error: cp: 80: No such file or directory
How do I specify the port number in a scp command?
Unlike ssh, scp uses the uppercase P switch to set the port instead of the lowercase p:
scp -P 80 ... # Use port 80 to bypass the firewall, instead of the scp default
The lowercase p switch is used with scp for the preservation of times and modes.
Here is an excerpt from scp's man page with all of the details concerning the two switches, as well as an explanation of why uppercase P was chosen for scp:
-P port Specifies the port to connect to on the remote host. Note that this option is written with a capital 'P', because -p is already reserved for preserving the times and modes of the file in rcp(1).
-p Preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the original file.
One additional hint. Place the '-P' option after the scp command, no matter whether the machine you are ssh-ing into is the second one (aka destination). Example:
scp -P 2222 /absolute_path/source-folder/some-file user@example.com:/absolute_path/destination-folder
You know what's cooler than -P ? nothing
If you use this server more than a few times, setup/create a ~/.ssh/config file with an entry like:
Host www.myserver.com
Port 80
or
Host myserver myserver80 short any.name.u.want yes_anything well-within-reason
HostName www.myserver.com
Port 80
User username
Then you can use:
scp username@www.myserver.com:/root/file.txt .
or
scp short:/root/file.txt .
You can use anything on the "Host" line with ssh, scp, rsync, git & more
There are MANY configuration option that you can use in config files, see:
man ssh_config
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