How can I upload an entire folder, that contains other folders, using sftp on linux?
For people actually wanting a direct answer to this question (instead of being told to use something other than sftp)...
put -r local/path/to/directoryName
The uploaded directory must already exist in the working directory on the server, so you might need to create it first.
mkdir directoryName
Here you can find detailed explanation as how to copy a directory using scp
. In your case, it would be something like:
$ scp -r foo your_username@remotehost.edu:/some/remote/directory/bar
This will copy the directory "foo" from the local host to a remote host's directory "bar". Here -r
is -recursively copy entire directories.
You can also use rcp
with similar syntax. The only difference between them is that scp
uses secure shell and rcp
uses remote shell.
BTW The "Couldn't canonicalise" error you mentioned appear when sftp server is unable to access the file/directory mentioned in the command.
UPDATE: For users who want to use put
specifically, please refer to Ben Thielker answer here.