copies files between hosts on a network. It uses ssh() for data transfer, and uses the same authentication and provides the same security as ssh(1) . Unlike rcp(1) , will ask for passwords or passphrases if they are needed for authentication.

Any file name may contain a host and user specification to indicate that the file is to be copied to/from that host. Copies between two remote hosts are permitted.

The options are as follows:

-1

Forces to use protocol 1.

-2

Forces to use protocol 2.

-4

Forces to use IPv4 addresses only.

-6

Forces to use IPv6 addresses only.

-B

Selects batch mode (prevents asking for passwords or passphrases).

-C

Compression enable. Passes the -C flag to ssh() to enable compression.

-c cipher

Selects the cipher to use for encrypting the data transfer. This option is directly passed to ssh(1) .

-F ssh_config

Specifies an alternative per-user configuration file for ssh . This option is directly passed to ssh(1) .

-i identity_file

Selects the file from which the identity (private key) for RSA authentication is read. This option is directly passed to ssh(1) .

-l limit

Limits the used bandwidth, specified in Kbit/s.

-o ssh_option

Can be used to pass options to ssh in the format used in ssh_config(5) . This is useful for specifying options for which there is no separate scp command-line flag. For full details of the options listed below, and their possible values, see ssh_config(5) .

AddressFamily

BatchMode

BindAddress

ChallengeResponseAuthentication

CheckHostIP

Cipher

Ciphers

Compression

CompressionLevel

ConnectionAttempts

ConnectTimeout

ControlMaster

ControlPath

GlobalKnownHostsFile

GSSAPIAuthentication

GSSAPIDelegateCredentials

HashKnownHosts

Host

HostbasedAuthentication

HostKeyAlgorithms

HostKeyAlias

HostName

IdentityFile

IdentitiesOnly

KbdInteractiveDevices

LogLevel

MACs

NoHostAuthenticationForLocalhost

NumberOfPasswordPrompts

PasswordAuthentication

Port

PreferredAuthentications

Protocol

ProxyCommand

PubkeyAuthentication

RhostsRSAAuthentication

RSAAuthentication

SendEnv

ServerAliveInterval

ServerAliveCountMax

SmartcardDevice

StrictHostKeyChecking

TCPKeepAlive

UsePrivilegedPort

User

UserKnownHostsFile

VerifyHostKeyDNS

-P port

Specifies the port to connect to on the remote host. Note that this option is written with a capital because -p is already reserved for preserving the times and modes of the file in rcp(1) .

-p

Preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the original file.

-q

Disables the progress meter.

-r

Recursively copy entire directories.

-S program

Name of program to use for the encrypted connection. The program must understand ssh() options.

-v

Verbose mode. Causes and ssh() to print debugging messages about their progress. This is helpful in debugging connection, authentication, and configuration problems.

exits with 0 on success or >0 if an error occurred.

is based on the rcp() program in BSD source code from the Regents of the University of California.