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11<h2><a name="scp">SCP</a></h2>
12<h3>Description</h3>
13
14<p><em>since Ant 1.6</em></p>
15
16<p>Copies a file or FileSet to or from a remote machine running SSH daemon.
17FileSet <i>only</i> works for copying files from the local machine to a
18remote machine.</p>
19
20<p><b>Note:</b> This task depends on external libraries not included
21in the Ant distribution. See <a
22href="../install.html#librarydependencies">Library Dependencies</a>
23for more information. This task has been tested with jsch-0.1.2 to
24jsch-0.1.14.</p>
25
26<h3>Parameters</h3>
27<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
28 <tr>
29 <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
30 <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
31 <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
32 </tr>
33 <tr>
34 <td valign="top">file</td>
35 <td valign="top">The file to copy. This can be a local path or a
36 remote path of the form <i>user[:password]@host:/directory/path</i>.
37 <i>:password</i> can be omitted if you use key based
38 authentication or specify the password attribute. The way remote
39 path is recognized is whether it contains @ character or not. This
40 will not work if your localPath contains @ character.</td>
41 <td valign="top" align="center">Yes, unless a nested
42 <code>&lt;fileset&gt;</code> element is used.</td>
43 </tr>
44 <tr>
45 <td valign="top">localFile</td>
46 <td valign="top">This is an alternative to the file attribute. But
47 this must always point to a local file. The reason this was added
48 was that when you give file attribute it is treated as remote if
49 it contains @ character. This character can exist also in local
50 paths. <em>since Ant 1.6.2</em></td>
51 <td valign="top" align="center">Alternative to file attribute.</td>
52 </tr>
53 <tr>
54 <td valign="top">remoteFile</td>
55 <td valign="top">This is an alternative to the file attribute. But
56 this must always point to a remote file. <em>since Ant 1.6.2</em></td>
57 <td valign="top" align="center">Alternative to file attribute.</td>
58 </tr>
59 <tr>
60 <td valign="top">todir</td>
61 <td valign="top">The directory to copy to. This can be a local path
62 or a remote path of the form <i>user[:password]@host:/directory/path</i>.
63 <i>:password</i> can be omitted if you use key based
64 authentication or specify the password attribute. The way remote
65 path is recognized is whether it contains @ character or not. This
66 will not work if your localPath contains @ character.</td>
67 <td valian="top" align="center">Yes</td>
68 </tr>
69 <tr>
70 <td valign="top">localTodir</td>
71 <td valign="top">This is an alternative to the todir
72 attribute. But this must always point to a local directory. The
73 reason this was added was that when you give todir attribute it is
74 treated as remote if it contains @ character. This character can
75 exist also in local paths. <em>since Ant 1.6.2</em></td>
76 <td valian="top" align="center">Alternative to todir attribute.</td>
77 </tr>
78 <tr>
79 <td valign="top">localTofile</td>
80 <td valign="top">Changes the file name to the given name while
81 receiving it, only useful if receiving a single file. <em>since
82 Ant 1.6.2</em></td>
83 <td valian="top" align="center">Alternative to todir attribute.</td>
84 </tr>
85 <tr>
86 <td valign="top">remoteTodir</td>
87 <td valign="top">This is an alternative to the todir
88 attribute. But this must always point to a remote directory.
89 <em>since Ant 1.6.2</em></td>
90 <td valian="top" align="center">Alternative to todir attribute.</td>
91 </tr>
92 <tr>
93 <td valign="top">remoteTofile</td>
94 <td valign="top">Changes the file name to the given name while
95 sending it, only useful if sending a single file. <em>since
96 Ant 1.6.2</em></td>
97 <td valian="top" align="center">Alternative to todir attribute.</td>
98 </tr>
99 <tr>
100 <td valign="top">port</td>
101 <td valign="top">The port to connect to on the remote host.</td>
102 <td valian="top" align="center">No, defaults to 22.</td>
103 </tr>
104 <tr>
105 <td valign="top">trust</td>
106 <td valign="top">This trusts all unknown hosts if set to yes/true.<br>
107 <strong>Note</strong> If you set this to false (the default), the
108 host you connect to must be listed in your knownhosts file, this
109 also implies that the file exists.</td>
110 <td valian="top" align="center">No, defaults to No.</td>
111 </tr>
112 <tr>
113 <td valign="top">knownhosts</td>
114 <td valign="top">This sets the known hosts file to use to validate
115 the identity of the remote host. This must be a SSH2 format file.
116 SSH1 format is not supported.</td>
117 <td valian="top" align="center">No, defaults to
118 ${user.home}/.ssh/known_hosts.</td>
119 </tr>
120 <tr>
121 <td valign="top">failonerror</td>
122 <td valign="top">Whether to halt the build if the transfer fails.
123 </td>
124 <td valign="top" align="center">No; defaults to true.</td>
125 </tr>
126 <tr>
127 <td valign="top">password</td>
128 <td valign="top">The password.</td>
129 <td valign="top" align="center">Not if you are using key based
130 authentication or the password has been given in the file or
131 todir attribute.</td>
132 </tr>
133 <tr>
134 <td valign="top">keyfile</td>
135 <td valign="top">Location of the file holding the private key.</td>
136 <td valign="top" align="center">Yes, if you are using key based
137 authentication.</td>
138 </tr>
139 <tr>
140 <td valign="top">passphrase</td>
141 <td valign="top">Passphrase for your private key.</td>
142 <td valign="top" align="center">Yes, if you are using key based
143 authentication.</td>
144 </tr>
145 <tr>
146 <td valign="top">verbose</td>
147 <td valign="top">Determines whether SCP outputs verbosely to the
148 user. Currently this means outputting dots/stars showing the
149 progress of a file transfer. <em>since Ant 1.6.2</em></td>
150 <td valign="top" align="center">No; defaults to false.</td>
151 </tr>
152</table>
153<h3>Parameters specified as nested elements</h3>
154
155<h4>fileset</h4>
156 <p><a href="../CoreTypes/fileset.html">FileSet</a>s are used to select
157sets of files to copy.
158 To use a fileset, the <code>todir</code> attribute must be set.</p>
159
160<h3>Examples</h3>
161<p><b>Copy a single local file to a remote machine</b></p>
162<pre>
163 &lt;scp file=&quot;myfile.txt&quot; todir=&quot;user:password@somehost:/home/chuck&quot;/&gt;
164</pre>
165
166<p><b>Copy a single local file to a remote machine with separate
167password attribute</b></p>
168<pre>
169 &lt;scp file=&quot;myfile.txt&quot; todir=&quot;user@somehost:/home/chuck&quot; password=&quot;password&quot;/&gt;
170</pre>
171
172<p><b>Copy a single local file to a remote machine using key base
173authentication.</b></p>
174<pre>
175 &lt;scp file=&quot;myfile.txt&quot;
176 todir=&quot;user@somehost:/home/chuck&quot;
177 keyfile=&quot;${user.home}/.ssh/id_dsa&quot;
178 passphrase=&quot;my extremely secret passphrase&quot;
179 /&gt;
180</pre>
181
182<p><b>Copy a single remote file to a local directory</b></p>
183<pre>
184 &lt;scp file=&quot;user:password@somehost:/home/chuck/myfile.txt&quot; todir=&quot;../some/other/dir&quot;/&gt;
185</pre>
186
187<p><b>Copy a remote directory to a local directory</b></p>
188<pre>
189 &lt;scp file=&quot;user:password@somehost:/home/chuck/*&quot; todir=&quot;/home/sara&quot;/&gt;
190</pre>
191
192<p><b>Copy a local directory to a remote directory</b></p>
193<pre>
194 &lt;scp todir=&quot;user:password@somehost:/home/chuck/&quot;&gt;
195 &lt;fileset dir=&quot;src_dir&quot;/&gt;
196 &lt;/scp&gt;
197</pre>
198<p><b>Copy a set of files to a directory</b></p>
199<pre>
200 &lt;scp todir=&quot;user:password@somehost:/home/chuck&quot;&gt;
201 &lt;fileset dir=&quot;src_dir&quot;&gt;
202 &lt;include name=&quot;**/*.java&quot;/&gt;
203 &lt;/fileset&gt;
204 &lt;/scp&gt;
205
206 &lt;scp todir=&quot;user:password@somehost:/home/chuck&quot;&gt;
207 &lt;fileset dir=&quot;src_dir&quot; excludes=&quot;**/*.java&quot;/&gt;
208 &lt;/scp&gt;
209</pre>
210
211<p><strong>Security Note:</strong> Hard coding passwords and/or usernames
212in scp task can be a serious security hole. Consider using variable
213substitution and include the password on the command line. For example:<br>
214<pre>
215 &lt;scp todir=&quot;${username}:${password}@host:/dir&quot; ...&gt;
216</pre>
217Invoke ant with the following command line:
218<pre>
219 ant -Dusername=me -Dpassword=mypassword target1 target2
220</pre>
221</p>
222
223<p><strong>Unix Note:</strong> File permissions are not retained when files
224are copied; they end up with the default <code>UMASK</code> permissions
225instead. This is caused by the lack of any means to query or set file
226permissions in the current Java runtimes. If you need a permission-
227preserving copy function, use <code>&lt;exec executable="scp" ... &gt;</code>
228instead.
229</p>
230
231<hr><p align="center">Copyright &copy; 2003-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
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