Implementing SCP with paramiko
Regular readers will note that I've been interested in how scp works and paramiko for the last couple of days. There are previous examples of how to do scp with paramiko out there, but the code isn't all on one page, you have to read through the mail thread and work it out from there. I figured I might save someone some time (possibly me!) and note a complete example of scp with paramiko... #!/usr/bin/python # A simple scp example for Paramiko. # Args: # 1: hostname # 2: username # 3: local filename # 4: remote filename import getpass import os import paramiko import socket import sys # Socket connection to remote host sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) sock.connect((sys.argv[1], 22)) # Build a SSH transport t = paramiko.Transport(sock) t.start_client() t.auth_password(sys.argv[2], getpass.getpass('Password: ')) # Start a scp channel scp_channel = t.open_session() f = file(sys.argv[3], 'rb') scp_channel.exec_command('scp -v -t %s\n' % '/'.join(sys.argv[4].split('/')[:-1])) scp_channel.send('C%s %d %s\n' %(oct(os.stat(sys.argv[3]).st_mode)[-4:], os.stat(sys.argv[3])[6], sys.argv[4].split('/')[-1])) scp_channel.sendall(f.read()) # Cleanup f.close() scp_channel.close() t.close() sock.close()