I often do this:
scp some_file [email protected] I'm annoyed by this because I always copy-paste this line, and then I need to edit the middle to change the file I want to upload.
Is it possible to tinker with this line so the file name will be at the end and it'll still work?
Basically I want any string of characters that I can paste into a shell, then type a file name and have it upload the file with scp to the server.
Why not make a super-simple script? Just edit a file named say myscp containing
#!/bin/bash scp $1 [email protected] and then chmod +x myscp, so that later you can simply
./myscp some_file This is all assuming your myscp script is located at the current directory, otherwise add the path
/path/to/myscp some_file or better yet, add the path of the location and this and -hopefully- future scripts to your $path.
One of possible solutions:
(read FILE_NAME; scp "$FILE_NAME" [email protected]) <<< some_file Add to the end of your .bashrc or equivalent for your shell:
my_function_name() { if [ -r "$1" ]; then scp "$1" [email protected] else echo "File does not exists or can not be read, $1" >&2 return 1 fi } Change my_function_name to your needs.
Now you can just invoke the function by name and pass a file as argument and it will be tested for read access and run scp with it or quit if can not read it.
Note that I used return instead of exit because it will be loaded by your interactive shell, and if you use exit the shell will terminate.
Use ssh_config to shorten your [email protected]. Create a file ~/.ssh/config with
Host alias HostName long.server.name.com User really and then connect simply using scp some_file alias.
No, you can't change the order of the parameters without wrapping it in a shell script, but you could...
R='[email protected]' scp some_file $R scp other_file $R ... 