File Transfer Script using SCP?

**igfud** · September 28th, 2008

Hello,

I am writing a script for a remote Ubuntu machine. When the script completes, I want it to automatically save the resultant text file to my computer. I thought this might be accomplished via the secure copy (scp) command. I can call the scp command remotely, but I don't know how to give it my machine's password such that it can copy the files to my computer automatically.

I tried writing a similar version to automatically upload a file to the remote machine from my computer just to see if I could get it to work. I tried:

Code:

scp /local/file/path user@remote_server:/remote/filepath < access.txt

where access.txt contains my password to the server. When I ran the script in the terminal, I am just prompted for my password to the remote machine. Is there some method that scp can find my machine's password either in a textfile or in the script itself so that it can automatically upload a file to my computer?

Thanks,
igfud