On Fri, 2015-02-27 at 01:15 +0000, Richard wrote: > As I believe was suggested by someone when you asked about this a > few days ago, the space that you have after the colon: > > scp -pr mlapier at 192.168.15.105: /home/m... > > is the source of your problem. I just tested and confirmed it. When transferring files between machines I use this (in a BASH file) scp -P 12345 -p $file aaa.example.com://$file Note the colon and 2 slashes. -- Regards, Paul. England, EU. Je suis Charlie.