Programming

I was a touch annoyed since you seemed to be repeating the same questions hoping for different answers. I also suspect your approach to the problem won't work, but can't be sure until I can be completely sure what it actually is. If you can ssh to a system, you can scp to it. It connects to the same service.

If you're asking if there's a windows version of scp, it's available here as pscp.

It won't work out of the box; You need additional software like cygwin or SFU (just to mention a few).

Could you post your script without all those gaudy asterisks and strange echoes?

I thank both Corona and Verde for the replies.

Corona, I need some more information.

1.First I have to install SSH
2.Afterwards I have to install SCP

I hope the above is correct. Please tell me if I am wrong.

Even my friends have to do the same thing. Otherwise they can't copy files and folders from my system. Please tell me if I am wrong.
I don't know very much about these things. I am here to learn.
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Verde wants me to repost the script. I will do so when time permits.
Time is the biggest enemy for me. I work and study. I am studying a course on server virtualization. On top of this I go to the gym 5 times a week for circuit-training. I come home everyday around 10 o'clock. No time at all!

It seems Verde has some experience of Windows environment too. I remember cygwin. I had it some years ago. It mimics the Linux command line.

So both cygwin and pscp are necessary for Windows clients.
I run Linux. If my friends have Microsoft, they must install both cygwin and pscp.
Please tell me if I am wrong.

I don't know exactly what you're doing, so I can't say. What is your system? You were writing a script for ssh before. If your system lets people ssh to it, it lets people scp to it.

If you're scp-ing from Windows computers to UNIX ones, all you need is pscp. pscp is a standalone program. It doesn't even need to be installed, it's a sole executable file.

hi
one doubt inthe above script if [ -e "$to" ]. what is the option -e used for ?

Evaluates to TRUE if file $to exists.

Introduction to if



I still do not get exactly what you want to do.

As corona already posted, either you can use pscp to connect from Windows to Linux (from a cmd prompt) or WinSCP if you want a GUI.