This looks much like a standard cp command but the power of scp comes from allowing us to specify either of these paths on another remote machine. The standard format of the scp command is scp /path/to/file/to/copy /path/to/location/to/copy/to where we specify the path to the file we want to copy and then the path to the location where we want it copied to. As with all linux commands it also have a number of additonal options which you can learn more about by checking its manual page by running man scp.

It uses ssh to connect to a remote computer and copy the file or directory to that remote host. The scp command stands for the secure copy protocol. If you’re using MobaXTerm’s local terminal make sure you’ve configured it properly using the steps outlined in Logging on. The following steps will outline the use of two commands scp and rsync that allow for file transfer from a local machine to a remote machine or vice versa. We can also download and upload files to HPC using commands in a Terminal. We can also make use of the MobaXTerm terminal to perform command based file transfer as outlined the in next section Using a Terminal. This allows us to performance basic file transfer steps using the MobaXTerm GUI. We can also download files and directories from HPC to our local machine using this drag and drop approach with MobaXTerm, shown below. We can upload files and directories using this file explorer by dragging and dropping them into that window. We can also download files from ARC onto our local computer by selecting them in the file explorer window and pressing the Download icon. In this file explorer we can see all the folders and files within the directory path specified at the top (in this example /home/home01/medacola/), we can change this directory path if we wish to look in a different directory (that we have permission to view). By default when a user connects to ARC through MobaXTerm files are displayed in the left-hand file explorer window (highlighted in red). Windows users who make use of MobaXTerm can take advantage of some builtin tools for file management. Moving files onto and off the HPC systems is a crucial part of any researchers workflow and on this page we’ll outline a number of approaches for performing file transfer.

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