Using putty to scp from windows to Linux

You need to tell scp where to send the file. In your command that is not working:

scp C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\WMU\5260\A2.c ~

You have not mentioned a remote server. scp uses : to delimit the host and path, so it thinks you have asked it to download a file at the path \Users\Admin\Desktop\WMU\5260\A2.c from the host C to your local home directory.

The correct upload command, based on your comments, should be something like:

C:\> pscp C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\WMU\5260\A2.c ckg8221@thor.cs.wmich.edu:

If you are running the command from your home directory, you can use a relative path:

C:\Users\Admin> pscp Desktop\WMU\5260\A2.c ckg8221@thor.cs.wmich.edu:

You can also mention the directory where you want to this folder to be downloaded to at the remote server. i.e by just adding a path to the folder as below:

C:/> pscp C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\WMU\5260\A2.c ckg8221@thor.cs.wmich.edu:/home/path_to_the_folder/

You can use PSCP to copy files from Windows to Linux.

1. Download PSCP from putty.org
2. Open cmd in the directory with pscp.exe file

3. Type command pscp source_file user@host:destination_file

   • Ex.
     pscp sample.txt myuser@myhost.com:/mydata/sample.txt

Reference

Use scp priv_key.pem source user@host:target if you need to connect using a private key.

or if using pscp then use pscp -i priv_key.ppk source user@host:target