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Michael Havens writes: 

> well... yeah. I knew that. I was really asking how one did that. I mean
> like do you drop the user name and it would be '<source_ip>:thatfile this
> file' or 'thisfile <destination_ip>:that file'. 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:25 AM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com <
> kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote: 
> 
>> Michael, "names" on a network are fake.
>> There are only IP address in a network .
>> You "translate a name" into its corresponding IP address via a "name
>> resolution service"
>> A "name resolution service" can be as simple as an /etc/hosts file or as
>> complex as a full blown self-replicating/redundant name server (like bind).
>> At the end, EVERYTHING goes via an IP address, so your question might
>> actually work in reverse: 
>>
>>> I was wondering.... could you do this via NAMEs? 
>>>
>> Yes, assuming that the name can be translated via some "name resolution
>> service"
>> ET 
>>
>> 
>>
>>
>> Michael Havens writes: 
>>
>>> I was wondering.... could you do this via ipaddress?
>>> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:01 PM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com <
>>> kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote: 
>>>
>>>> Yes, scp (like cp) will copy back or forth, the 2 commands below are
>>>> legal:
>>>> scp myuser@remotebox:/that/file /this/path
>>>> scp /this/path myuser@remotebox:/that/file
>>>> 1st one will 'retrieve' /that/file from 'remotebox' into /this/path
>>>> 2nd one will copy /this/path to /that/file in 'remotebox'.
>>>> ET
>>>> joe@actionline.com writes: 
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This is interesting.  Does this really mean that
>>>>> scp in reverse is possible by using a similar syntax
>>>>> with the dot at the end to extract a file from a remote
>>>>> computer to my local computer?
>>>>> -----------------
>>>>> Mike Ballon wrote (in part) ... scp in reverse:
>>>>> scp 192.168.0.4:Pictures/2009-****Move.from.Florida . 
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm guessing the path of the pictures and take note of the dot at the
>>>>> end 
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