Question

• I am writing a python script to copy python(say ABC.py) files from one directory to another
  directory with the same folder name(say ABC) as script name excluding .py.
• In the local system it works fine and copying the files from one directory to others by
  creating the same name folder.
• But actually I want copy these files from my local system (windows XP) to the remote
  system(Linux) located in other country on which I execute my script. But I am getting
  the error as “Destination Path not found” means I am not able to connect to remote
  that’s why.
• I use SSH Secure client.
• I use an IP Address and Port number to connect to the remote server.

• Then it asks for user id and password.

  But I am not able to connect to the remote server by my python script.

Can Any one help me out how can I do this??

Answer 1

paramiko provides a SFTPClient that can be used to do this.

import paramiko

source = r'C:\Somedir\somefile.txt'
dest = r'/home/user/file.txt'
hostname = 'linux.server.com'
port = 22 # default port for SSH
username = 'user'
password = 'secret'

try:
    t = paramiko.Transport((hostname, port))
    t.connect(username=username, password=password)
    sftp = paramiko.SFTPClient.from_transport(t)
    sftp.put(source, dest)
finally:
    t.close()