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Hamm
Asked: 2016-05-05 05:18:00 +0800 CST

how to copy file or directory to remote machine using sftp

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I used this command sftp [email protected] to start session with a remote virtual machine on the cloud and tried to copy files from my local machine to that machine and I used this command : put l1/l2/file.tar.gz /rl1 Unfortunately, I got the following error :

remote open("/rl1"): Permission denied
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1 Answers

  1. This command

    put l1/l2/file.tar.gz  /rl1

    copies file to the remote root directory (/), which is probably not what you want (and as a normal user, you certainly don't have access for this). You probably want to copy the file to your home directory (~) like this:

    put l1/l2/file.tar.gz  ~/rl1

    or current directory

    put l1/l2/file.tar.gz  ./rl1

    or 

    put l1/l2/file.tar.gz  rl1

    This should work for you.

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