scp’ing Files using a Text File List
July 12, 2023 —
Gregg Szumowski
If you have a collection of files that you want to transfer to a
remote server and they are a subset of files in the current directory or
scattered among different directories you can create a list of files and
then pipe the list to scp:
$ cat filelist.txt | xargs -i scp {} user@remote:~/backup/