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I have a raspberry pi set up for a class, that I am supposed to use to access a Linux server on campus. I can SSH into the server completely fine. When I'm using the command line locally, however, I can't scp a file from my local machine to the server. As according to my teacher, I should use:

scp <Path-to-File> <Logname>@servername.school.edu

He notes that if I my local username is the same as that of my username on the server, then I don't need to include the Logname. Either way that I've tried, and when using sudo, it only creates a file in the /home/username folder named the same as the server address i.e. /home/username/<Logname>@servername.school.edu.txt.

The pi and the server are on the same network, and other users in my class have been able to do this successfully. I appreciate any help.

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scp <Path-to-File> <Logname>@servername.school.edu:

The last argument is user@server:/remote/path. You can omit /remote/path but it's the colon (:) that informs scp the argument is not a local filename.

On the other hand if you ever need scp to treat user@server: as a local filename containing a colon, make it a (full or relative) path, like ./user@server:.

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