8
3
Something like
cp \\target_machine local_file.txt c:\dest_file.txt
Behrang Saeedzadeh
Posted 2010-10-08T04:46:19.987
Reputation: 1 834
How can I copy a file from my machine to another machine from command line?
Answers
11
Assuming you have appropriate permissions, you can do it like this:
copy local_file.txt \\target_machine\c$\dest_file.txt
Use "c$" to reference C drive on the remote machine.
Ash
Posted 2010-10-08T04:46:19.987
Reputation: 2 574
1
It's like this:
copy c:\local_path\local_file.txt \\target_machine\destination_path\destination_file.txt
If you have \\target_machine\destination_path\ mapped to a network drive, say, Z:
then the command becomes
copy c:\local_path\local_file.txt Z:\destination_file.txt
Sathyajith Bhat
Posted 2010-10-08T04:46:19.987
Reputation: 58 436
On Windows machines/networks, a share such as c$ must be used. – Timtech – 2015-03-27T00:24:41.530
when I try the first option (without the c$ stuff) I get "The system cannot find the path specified" or "The network name cannot be found", depending on one or two backslashes before machine name. – Ash – 2010-10-08T05:15:18.370
Hmm, there was an error in Markdownformatting which showed only single backslash instead of 2. If you're getting The network name cannot be found then it's a network problem, either you don't have permissions or the firewall is blocking your requests – Sathyajith Bhat – 2010-10-08T12:23:03.063
I tried both one and two backslashes, and got the different error messages depending on which I used. "Network name cannot be found" was with two backslashes. Interesting. That works with your network setup? It didn't work with either our server or other clients... – Ash – 2010-10-08T13:45:41.883
@Ash single backslash indicates you are accessing the current drive, hence you got the system cannot find path specified error. Double backslash is used for accessing network shares with UNC naming scheme. Yes, this works on my network, I have couple of scripts where I make use of this ( scripts are to export data, compress them and move them to NAS). I suspect permissions problems. Are the machines you want to copy on different domains/workgroups ? – Sathyajith Bhat – 2010-10-08T13:59:37.490
How do you include a username and password to authenticate if you don't have appropriate permissions? – ArtOfWarfare – 2018-03-18T14:33:45.583
1
Searching around suggests
– Ash – 2018-03-19T09:11:52.187net useto provide the authentication to the share before copying (eg: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3854026). Not sure if that works with the c$ notation above though, you'd have to try it and see.