How do I transfer files using putty?

Question

I am running windows XP here, and I have Putty linked to a linux box there. I need to load a file from here onto the linux box there.

Answer 1

You can't, Putty itself is just a Telnet/SSH client and can't do FTP. There's is another application in the Putty suite though that can do (S)FTP, it's called PSFTP and you can get it here:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Though personally I prefer SmartFTP:

http://www.smartftp.com/

Answer 2

PUTTY is a terminal emulator. It doesn't have an ability to transfer files. You'll have to use ftp or sftp to do the task.

Answer 3

in the putty suite you can use pscp (psftp is "better" but does not work with all the server side installations, and is slightly harder to script)

To copy the file /etc/hosts from the server example.com as user fred to the file c:\temp\example-hosts.txt, you would type:

pscp [e-mail]:/etc/hosts c:\temp\example-hosts.txt

To send (a) file(s) to a remote server:

pscp [options] source [source...] [user@]host:target

So to copy the local file c:\documents\foo.txt to the server example.com as user fred to the file /tmp/foo you would type:

pscp c:\documents\foo.txt [e-mail]:/tmp/foo

You can use wildcards to transfer multiple files in either direction, like this:

pscp c:\documents\*.doc [e-mail]:docfiles
pscp [e-mail]:source/*.c c:\source