SCP for file transfer in Linux CLI - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to copy a file named document.txt from your local machine to a remote server.

Linux CLI

scp document.txt [1]:/home/user/

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Auser@remote-server:/home/user

Bremote-server

C/home/user

Duser@remote-server

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Forgetting to include the username before the @ symbol.

Using only the server name without the username.

Including the full path after the colon when it's already specified in the command.

You need to specify the remote user and server in the format user@remote-server to copy the file to the remote machine.

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medium

Complete the code to copy a directory named project recursively from your local machine to the remote server.

Linux CLI

scp -[1] project user@remote-server:/home/user/

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Ad

Br

Cp

DR

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using uppercase -R which is not valid for scp.

Using -p which preserves file attributes but does not copy directories.

Omitting the recursive option when copying directories.

The -r option tells scp to copy directories recursively.

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hard

Fix the error in the command to copy file.txt from the remote server to your local machine.

Linux CLI

scp user@remote-server[1]file.txt /home/localuser/

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A:

B/

C@

D~

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Common Mistakes

Using a slash instead of a colon after the server name.

Omitting the colon entirely.

Using the tilde or at symbol incorrectly.

You must use a colon : after the remote server to specify the remote file path.

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hard

Fill both blanks to copy backup.tar.gz from the remote server to your local directory /backups.

Linux CLI

scp [1][2]backup.tar.gz /backups/

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Auser@remote-server:

Buser@remote-server

C:

D/

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Missing the colon after the remote server.

Not using the absolute path starting with slash.

Confusing the remote and local paths.

The source must be specified as user@remote-server:/backup.tar.gz. Here, user@remote-server: is the remote prefix and / starts the absolute path.

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hard

Fill both blanks to copy all .log files from your local logs folder to the remote server's /var/logs directory.

Linux CLI

scp [1] logs/*.log [2]:/var/logs/

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A-r

Buser@remote-server

D-p

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using -r unnecessarily for files only.

Omitting the colon after the remote server.

Confusing the order of arguments.

The -p option preserves file attributes. The destination must be specified as user@remote-server:/var/logs/.