scp is actually quite simple for most purposes. This command scp gw:/etc/passwd /tmp will copy the passwd file from my computer to the /tmp directory on my computer. You can, of course, copy from your computer to a remote one: scp my-delights gw:/tmp You can also use wildcards in the usually Linux manner: scp gw:/var/ftp/pub/* /tmp and the most likely switches are -r for recursion -q to turn off the progress meter -p to preserve permissions, timestamps etc. -C to turn on compression, you would want this if there's a modem or other slow network between you and the remore computer. If ssh is configured to work without password prompts, then scp will too. On Saturday 17 August 2002 05:29, John J. Boyer wrote: > Thanks to all the people the other day who told me how to get ssh working. > That's fine now. The next thing is to do secure ftp. I looked at scp, but > it doesn't seem very interactive, or there are so many options that I > can't see how it is normally used. This is a common failing of man and > even info pages. > -- Cheers John. Please, no off-list mail. You will fall foul of my spam treatment. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb