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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to execute a command on UNIX? Post 302321609 by Action on Monday 1st of June 2009 04:50:27 PM
Old 06-01-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by BenA
Hi guys,
I'm completely new to UNIX and Linux and all that stuff. I've been using webhosting (shared) for some time years now and recently I've wanted to carry out some tasks that have had some commands which are not familiar to me. One was to install Mailman and the other to copy files from one server to another. I searched for ways to do the latter and got this:
Code:
$ scp source/file.c remoteuser@remoteaddr:remote/dir
$ scp -r remoteuser@remoteaddr:remote/dir ~/tmp

which means nothing to me. I assume that it's a command relating to UNIX and I have no idea how to execute such things. I am used to programming having written plenty of PHP and some client-side languages (not professionally), but this is like nothing I've ever seen.
If this is not UNIX related, I apologise, please correct me. If it is, how might I go about running such a command?
I've searched a bit but nothing much useful seems to come up. If it's helpful, my server says it's "UNIX Type: L8".

Thanks for your time,
Ben
Heyo, Ben, what you found is scp - secure copy over networks. remoteaddr is the server, remoteusr is the user you login as, after colon (":") there is the path, the tilda ("~") is for the user's home directory, "~/tmp" is the "tmp" subdirectory in the user's home directory. To your UNIX - if you can star a terminal, try to type in "uname -a" and press Enter, then copy and past it here so we can know exactly what kind of UNIX do you use. Any details about your UNIX, how does it look like, programms, maybe screenshots and so on can be helpful.
 

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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE

net::server::proto::unix

Net::Server::Proto::UNIX(3)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			       Net::Server::Proto::UNIX(3)

NAME

       Net::Server::Proto::UNIX - Net::Server UNIX protocol.

SYNOPSIS

       See Net::Server::Proto.

DESCRIPTION

       Protocol module for Net::Server.  This module implements the UNIX SOCK_STREAM socket type.  See Net::Server::Proto.

       Any sockets created during startup will be chown'ed to the user and group specified in the starup arguments.

PARAMETERS

       The following paramaters may be specified in addition to normal command line parameters for a Net::Server.  See Net::Server for more
       information on reading arguments.

       unix_type
	   Can be either SOCK_STREAM or SOCK_DGRAM (default is SOCK_STREAM).  This can also be passed on the port line (see Net::Server::Proto).

	   However, this method is deprecated.	If you want SOCK_STREAM - just use proto UNIX without any other arguments.  If you'd like
	   SOCK_DGRAM, use the new proto UNIXDGRAM.

METHODS

       NS_unix_path/NS_unix_type
	   In addition to the standard NS_ methods of Net::Server::Proto classes, the UNIX types also have legacy calls to NS_unix_path and
	   NS_unix_type.

	   Since version 2.000, NS_unix_path is simply an alias to NS_port.  NS_unix_type is now redundant with NS_proto.

	   These methods were missing between version 2.000 and 2.003 but have been returned as legacy bridges.

QUICK PARAMETER LIST

	 Key		   Value		    Default

	 # deprecated UNIX socket parameters
	 unix_type	   (SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_DGRAM) SOCK_STREAM
	 port		   "filename"		    undef

	 # more recent usage
	 port		   "filename / UNIX"
	 port		   "filename / UNIXDGRAM"

LICENCE

       Distributed under the same terms as Net::Server

perl v5.18.2							    2012-06-06					       Net::Server::Proto::UNIX(3)
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