5.2 PSCP Usage

Once you've got a console window to type into, you can just type pscp on its own to bring up a usage message. This tells you the version of PSCP you're using, and gives you a brief summary of how to use PSCP:

Z:\owendadmin>pscp
PuTTY Secure Copy client
Release 0.70
Usage: pscp [options] [user@]host:source target
       pscp [options] source [source...] [user@]host:target
       pscp [options] -ls [user@]host:filespec
Options:
  -V        print version information and exit
  -pgpfp    print PGP key fingerprints and exit
  -p        preserve file attributes
  -q        quiet, don't show statistics
  -r        copy directories recursively
  -v        show verbose messages
  -load sessname  Load settings from saved session
  -P port   connect to specified port
  -l user   connect with specified username
  -pw passw login with specified password
  -1 -2     force use of particular SSH protocol version
  -4 -6     force use of IPv4 or IPv6
  -C        enable compression
  -i key    private key file for user authentication
  -noagent  disable use of Pageant
  -agent    enable use of Pageant
  -hostkey aa:bb:cc:...
            manually specify a host key (may be repeated)
  -batch    disable all interactive prompts
  -proxycmd command
            use 'command' as local proxy
  -unsafe   allow server-side wildcards (DANGEROUS)
  -sftp     force use of SFTP protocol
  -scp      force use of SCP protocol
  -sshlog file
  -sshrawlog file
            log protocol details to a file

(PSCP's interface is much like the Unix scp command, if you're familiar with that.)

• 5.2.1 The basics
  • 5.2.1.1 user
  • 5.2.1.2 host
  • 5.2.1.3 source
  • 5.2.1.4 target
• 5.2.2 Options
  • 5.2.2.1 -ls list remote files
  • 5.2.2.2 -p preserve file attributes
  • 5.2.2.3 -q quiet, don't show statistics
  • 5.2.2.4 -r copies directories recursively
  • 5.2.2.5 -batch avoid interactive prompts
  • 5.2.2.6 -sftp, -scp force use of particular protocol
• 5.2.3 Return value
• 5.2.4 Using public key authentication with PSCP