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a) Open a terminal Open a terminal on your Mac workstation.
Search for the Terminal icon in /Applications/Utilities/Terminal and execute it (double click).
Search for the Terminal icon in /Aplications/Utilities/Terminal and execute it (double click)...


To avoid to overwrite unintentionally an existing file of the destination folder/directory, we suggest you to check ALWAYS the file names present in the destination folder/directory.

Copying a file from your laptop to your SISSA workstation.

  • 1) at the prompt write:

scp local_path/file_name_on_your_laptop your-SISSA-username@hostname:dest_path/new_file_name

  • 2) at the prompt write your SISSA password when requested.

Be sure about the pathnames and file names...

For example: scp fiele_name jsmith@bluestar.ap.sissa.it:~/Desktop/
In that example the local_path is the working folder on your laptop, so it is omitted,
the file_name_on_your_laptop is fiele_name,
the your-SISSA-username is jsmith,
the hostname (the name of your SISSA linux workstation) is bluestar.ap.sissa.it,
the dest_path (destination pathname) is ~/Desktop/ and the file will be copied with the same name (so it is not present a new_file_name).

Copying a file from your SISSA workstation to your laptop

  • 1) at the prompt write:

scp your-SISSA-username@hostname:local_path/file_name dest_path/new_file_name

  • 2) at the prompt write your SISSA password when requested.

Be sure about the pathnames and file names..

For example:scp jsmith@bluestar.ap.sissa.it:~/Desktop/file_name ~/Desktop
In that example the your-SISSA-username is jsmith,
the hostname (the name of your Sissa linux workstation) is bluestar.ap.sissa.it,
the local_path is the ~/Desktop,
the file_name is file_name,
the dest_path (destination_path) is ~/Desktop and the file will be copied with the same name (so the new_file_name is not present).

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