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timcoulter
Joined:: 2018-01-17
Posts:: 2
Location:: Australia

Unknown command 'cp'

2018-01-17 06:18

Hi team,

Am receiving an "Unknown command 'cp'" message when attempting the following:

WinSCP.com /command "open sftp://ks:password@10.190.129.251/opt/superb/test/data/tjc/" "cp *.db /backup/" "close" "exit"

The online help lists cp as a usable command, yet when type help in the Command console, it's not listed.

I'm running the latest v5.11.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!

Tim.

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martin◆ Site Admin
Joined:: 2002-12-10
Posts:: 40,556
Location:: Prague, Czechia

Re: Unknown command 'cp'

2018-01-18

cp command is supported since the 5.12 beta only.

I've forgot to mention that in documentation. It's corrected now:
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/scriptcommand_cp

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timcoulter
Joined:: 2018-01-17
Posts:: 2
Location:: Australia

Re: Unknown command 'cp'

2018-01-22 05:44

Thanks Martin for the quick response.

I've now downloaded and installed the 5.12 beta release. Upon testing, am now getting the following error:

Operation not supported.

Have tried the following (where backup is a sub-directory of where I currently am) all with the same error:

cp static.db /backup/
cp static.db backup/
cp static.db /backup

The server is "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)".

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks, Tim.

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martin◆ Site Admin
Joined:: 2002-12-10
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Location:: Prague, Czechia

Re: Unknown command 'cp'

2018-01-22

As documented:

Unsupported by most SFTP servers. The server has to support SFTP extension copy-file (supported by ProFTPD/mod_sftp for example).

https://winscp.net/eng/docs/protocols

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