How to copy a file from my Windows laptop to an Ubuntu server while using PuTTY?

Question

I have a remote server and I connect it via PuTTY software.
I've downloaded a file to my Downloads folder in my Windows OS laptop.
Now, I have to transfer this file to that remote server, using SCP Unix command.

Can someone bring me a clear and specified pattern or even an example of that command to my situation ?

Solution 1

You can use PSCP to copy files from Windows to Linux.

1. Download PSCP from putty.org
2. Open cmd in the directory with pscp.exe file
3. Type command pscp source_file user@host:destination_file

For example:-

pscp C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\myfile.txt [email protected]:/home/path_to_the_folder/

Solution 2

You can use pscp file user@remotehost:

Solution 3

Try WinSCP Get it here

You can login to the Linux server and transfer files using a GUI.

Comments

[Sara Ben Shabbat]

How do I find the remote host in Ubuntu server ?

[jdog]

It's the same as your putty remote server

[Sara Ben Shabbat]

And do how I find that ip address ?

[Mircea Vutcovici]

How do you use PuTTY? The IP address or hostname used by pscp is the same as the one used in PuTTY.

[dave_thompson_085]

If you (or whoever) installed using the recommended MSI (at the top of the chiark page, since maybe a decade now) all the tools (pscp plink puttygen etc) are already installed and you don't need to download anything more, and in your PATH so the directory doesn't matter.

[Martin Prikryl]

Most Linux servers come with a built-in SSH server. That's all you need to connect with WinSCP (using SFTP protocol). – No need to setup an FTP server.