Linux SCP defining destination port

Question

How can I specify a port for the destination ip? When I do scp -p 0000 it still tries to connect on port 22, not the one I'm specifying.

scp svn_backup.tgz user@xxx.xxx.xx.xxx:/path/to/new/svn/

ErikA · Answer 1 · 2010-06-11 15:55:40Z

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Capital "P".

$ scp -P 12345 svn_backup.tgz user@xxx.xxx.xx.xxx:/path/to/new/svn/

See $ man scp for more details.

answered Jun 11 '10 at 15:55

ErikA
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Hooray for consistency! – David Mackintosh Jun 11 '10 at 16:58

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@David: scp was designed to imitate rcp, and rcp used -p to "preserve file times and modes". See man scp. – grawity Jun 11 '10 at 19:08

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stafusa · Answer 2 · 2012-03-19 15:42:57Z

[I'd rather add a comment, but not enough 'reputation' for that yet.]

It's also noteworthy that the port specification must come before the file name, i.e.:

scp svn_backup.tgz -P 12345 user@xxx.xxx.xx.xxx:/path/to/new/svn/

*won't work.

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