SCP

SCP (Secure Copy Program) is an interactive file transfer program, similar to the copy command, it copies files over an encrypted SSH transport. It uses many features of SSH, such as public key authentication and compression.

Installation
On the majority of Gentoo mediums scp should be installed as part of the default system profile. To verify installation run the scp command. A usage statement should appear:

If no usage statement is displayed then scp is not installed or has been corrupted. Follow the installation instructions beginning at the USE flag section in the SSH article to install SCP.

Configuration
For configuration see the configuration section in the SSH article.

External resources

 * The scp man page locally ( man scp ) or online at openbsd.org