pscp(1) PuTTY tool suite pscp(1)
NAME
pscp - command-line SCP (secure copy) / SFTP client
SYNOPSIS
pscp [
options] [
user@]
host:source target pscp [
options]
source [
source...] [
user@]
host:target pscp [
options]
-ls [
user@]
host:filespecDESCRIPTION
pscp is a command-line client for the SSH-based SCP (secure copy) and
SFTP (secure file transfer protocol) protocols.
OPTIONS
The command-line options supported by
pscp are:
-V Show version information and exit.
-pgpfp Display the fingerprints of the PuTTY PGP Master Keys and
exit, to aid in verifying new files released by the PuTTY
team.
-ls Remote directory listing.
-p Preserve file attributes.
-q Quiet, don't show statistics.
-r Copy directories recursively.
-unsafe Allow server-side wildcards (DANGEROUS).
-v Show verbose messages.
-load session Load settings from saved session.
-P port Connect to port
port.
-proxycmd command Instead of making a TCP connection, use
command as a proxy;
network traffic will be redirected to the standard input and
output of
command.
command must be a single word, so is likely
to need quoting by the shell.
The special strings
%host and
%port in
command will be
replaced by the hostname and port number you want to connect
to; to get a literal
% sign, enter
%%.
Backslash escapes are also supported, such as sequences like
\n being replaced by a literal newline; to get a literal
backslash, enter
\\. (Further escaping may be required by the
shell.)
(See the main PuTTY manual for full details of the supported
%- and backslash-delimited tokens, although most of them are
probably not very useful in this context.)
-l user Set remote username to
user.
-batch Disable interactive prompts.
-no-sanitise-stderr By default, PSCP will filter control characters from the
standard error channel from the server, to prevent remote
processes sending confusing escape sequences. This option
forces the standard error channel to not be filtered.
-pwfile filename Open the specified file, and use the first line of text read
from it as the remote password.
-pw password Set remote password to
password.
CAUTION: this will likely
make the password visible to other users of the local machine
(via commands such as `
ps' or `
w'). Use
-pwfile instead.
-1 Force use of SSH protocol version 1.
-2 Force use of SSH protocol version 2.
-ssh-connection Force use of the `bare
ssh-connection' protocol. This is only
likely to be useful when connecting to a
psusan(
1) server,
most likely with an absolute path to a Unix-domain socket in
place of
host.
-ssh Force use of the SSH protocol. (This is usually not needed;
it's only likely to be useful if you need to override some
other configuration of the `bare
ssh-connection' protocol.)
-4,
-6 Force use of IPv4 or IPv6 for network connections.
-C Enable SSH compression.
-i keyfile Private key file for user authentication. For SSH-2 keys, this
key file must be in PuTTY's PPK format, not OpenSSH's format
or anyone else's.
If you are using an authentication agent, you can also specify
a
public key here (in RFC 4716 or OpenSSH format), to identify
which of the agent's keys to use.
-noagent Don't try to use an authentication agent.
-agent Allow use of an authentication agent. (This option is only
necessary to override a setting in a saved session.)
-no-trivial-auth Disconnect from any SSH server which accepts authentication
without ever having asked for any kind of password or
signature or token. (You might want to enable this for a
server you always expect to challenge you, for instance to
ensure you don't accidentally type your key file's passphrase
into a compromised server spoofing PSCP's passphrase prompt.)
-hostkey key Specify an acceptable host public key. This option may be
specified multiple times; each key can be either a fingerprint
(
SHA256:AbCdE...,
99:aa:bb:..., etc) or a base64-encoded blob
in OpenSSH's one-line format.
Specifying this option overrides automated host key
management;
only the key(s) specified on the command-line will
be accepted (unless a saved session also overrides host keys,
in which case those will be added to), and the host key cache
will not be written.
-scp Force use of SCP protocol.
-sftp Force use of SFTP protocol.
-sshlog logfile -sshrawlog logfile These options make
pscp log protocol details to a file. (Some
of these may be sensitive, although by default an effort is
made to suppress obvious passwords.)
-sshlog logs decoded SSH packets and other events (those that
-v would print).
-sshrawlog additionally logs the raw
encrypted packet data.
-logoverwrite If PSCP is configured to write to a log file that already
exists, discard the existing file.
-logappend If PSCP is configured to write to a log file that already
exists, append new log data to the existing file.
MORE INFORMATION
For more information on
pscp it's probably best to go and look at the
manual on the PuTTY web page:
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/BUGS
This man page isn't terribly complete. See the above web link for
better documentation.
PuTTY tool suite 2004-03-24 pscp(1)
