I am using Cygwin to copy all the files in a local windows folder to an EC2 linux instance inside of powershell. When I attempt to copy all the files in a folder, it copies the pathname as a folder:
\cygwin64\bin\scp.exe -i "C:\cygwin64\home\Ken\ken-key-pair.pem" -vr \git\configs\configs_test\ ec2-user@ec2-22-75-189-18.compute-1.amazonaws.com:/var/www/html/temp4configs/
will copy the correct files, but incorrectly include the path in a Windows format a path like:
/var/www/html/temp4configs/\git\configs\configs_test/file.php
I have tried an asterisk after the folder without the -r, such as:
\cygwin64\bin\scp.exe -i "C:\cygwin64\home\Ken\ken-key-pair.pem" -v \git\configs\configs_test\* ec2-user@ec2-22-75-189-18.compute-1.amazonaws.com:/var/www/html/temp4configs/
but that will return an error such as
"gitconfigsconfigs_test*: No such file or directory"
What can I do to copy the files without copying the path?
Thanks
When using cygwin programs is safer to use POSIX Path, and most of the time is the only way. To covert from windows to posix PATH use cygpath
$ cygpath -u "C:\cygwin64\home\Ken\ken-key-pair.pem"
/home/Ken/ken-key-pair.pem
$ cygpath -u "C:\git\configs\configs_test\ "
/cygdrive/c/git/configs/configs_test/
Using the windows one, will cause the server to misunderstand the client request