Access Remote Systems Using SSH

General Information

Using Secure Shell (SSH), Secure Copy (SCP), and Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP).

SSH Connect to another system

ssh user@10.0.0.1

Create a new directory on a remote system

ssh user@10.0.0.1 "mkdir newdir"

Copy new file from local system to remote system

scp ~/newfile.txt user@10.0.0.1:/home/user/newdir/

Connect to remote system using SFTP

sftp user@10.0.0.1

SFTP: Download file from remote system to local machine

sftp> get file1

SFTP: Upload file from local machine to remote system

sftp> put ~/localfile.txt

SFTP: Close remote connection

sftp> exit