Download files using pscp with pasword

With a strong software engineering background, Tony is determined to demystify the web. Discover why Tony quit his job to pursue this mission. You can join the Tony Teaches Tech community here. There are different installation types. I prefer Putty installation package where path environment configuration also done automatically. If we need to list all available options and help information we can just issue pscp command to the command line or MSDOS like below.

We can see that the usage or syntax of the pscp command is provided the start of the help information. Also, all available options are printed after the Options: part. The -q option to PSCP suppresses the printing of these statistics. By default, PSCP will only copy files. Any directories you specify to copy will be skipped, as will their contents.

The -r option tells PSCP to descend into any directories you specify, and to copy them and their contents. This allows you to use PSCP to transfer whole directory structures between machines. If you use the -batch option, PSCP will never give an interactive prompt while establishing the connection. If the server's host key is invalid, for example see section 2. This may help PSCP's behaviour when it is used in automated scripts: using -batch , if something goes wrong at connection time, the batch job will fail rather than hang.

As mentioned in section 5. Despite its name, PSCP like many other ostensible scp clients can use either of these protocols. The older SCP protocol does not have a written specification and leaves a lot of detail to the server platform. Wildcards are expanded on the server. The simple design means that any wildcard specification supported by the server platform such as brace expansion can be used, but also leads to interoperability issues such as with filename quoting for instance, where filenames contain spaces , and also the security issue described in section 5.

The newer SFTP protocol, which is usually associated with SSH-2 servers, is specified in a more platform independent way, and leaves issues such as wildcard syntax up to the client.

However, you should be aware that by using this option you are giving the server the ability to write to any file in the target directory, so you should only use this option if you trust the server administrator not to be malicious and not to let the server machine be cracked by malicious people.

The login name on the remote server. The name of the remote server, or the name of an existing PuTTY saved session. In the latter case, the session's settings for hostname, port number, cipher type and username will be used.

One or more source files. Wildcards are allowed. The syntax of wildcards depends on the system to which they apply, so if you are copying from a Windows system to a UNIX system, you should use Windows wildcard syntax e. The filename or directory to put the file s. When copying from a remote server to a local host, you may wish simply to place the file s in the current directory.

To do this, you should specify a target of. For example:.