General syntax for copying a file from windows to linux:
1. On windows open command prompt and issue below command
here servername : linux host name or ip address
2. It will ask for username and password and ones they provided connects to linux machine
3. Issue below command to copy a file from windows to linux
It will copy 1.txt file to linux machine
4. To copy multiple files issue the below command
It will copy all the files to linux machine
Note1: Top copy files from a directory , first navigate to that directory in command prompt and then ftp to linux machine and then issue put and mput commands
Note2: Through ftp we can copy files only.
Batch file for copying files from windows to linux without prompting for username and password:
1. Open a text file on windows and paste the below code in it
@echo
off
REM
Make a text file with username , password and ftp command
echo
username>> test.txt
echo
password>> test.txt
echo
mput * %1>> test.txt
echo
quit>> test.txt
REM
Ftp to linux machine by passing the test.txt file
ftp
-n -s:test.txt servername
REM Deleting the test.txt file
del
test.txt
pause
Here
username : user name of the linux machine
password: password of the linux machine
servername : linux machine host name or ip address
2. Save the file with .bat extension
3. Double click the bat file and it will copy the files to linux machine
