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Prefix remote file names with the virtual machine instance name (e.g., example-instance:~/FILE).

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Local file names can be used as is (e.g., ~/FILE).

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File names containing a colon (``:'') must be invoked by either their absolute path or a path that begins with ``./''.

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When the destination of your transfer is local, all source files must be from the same virtual machine.

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When the destination of your transfer is remote instead, all sources must be local.

Under the covers, scp(1) is used to facilitate the transfer.

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

[[USER@]INSTANCE:]SRC [[[USER@]INSTANCE:]SRC ...]

Specifies the files to copy.

[[USER@]INSTANCE:]DEST

Specifies a destination for the source files.

FLAGS

--compress

Enable compression.

--dry-run

Print the equivalent scp/ssh command that would be run to stdout, instead of executing it.

--force-key-file-overwrite

If enabled, the gcloud command-line tool will regenerate and overwrite the files associated with a broken SSH key without asking for confirmation in both interactive and non-interactive environments.
If disabled, the files associated with a broken SSH key will not be regenerated and will fail in both interactive and non-interactive environments.

--plain

Suppress the automatic addition of ssh(1)/scp(1) flags. This flag is useful if you want to take care of authentication yourself or use specific ssh/scp features.

--port=PORT

The port to connect to.

--recurse

Upload directories recursively.

--scp-flag=SCP_FLAG

Extra flag to be sent to scp. This flag may be repeated.

--ssh-key-file=SSH_KEY_FILE

The path to the SSH key file. By default, this is ~/.ssh/google_compute_engine.

--strict-host-key-checking=STRICT_HOST_KEY_CHECKING

Override the default behavior of StrictHostKeyChecking for the connection. By default, StrictHostKeyChecking is set to 'no' the first time you connect to an instance, and will be set to 'yes' for all subsequent connections. STRICT_HOST_KEY_CHECKING must be one of: yes, no, ask.

--zone=ZONE

The zone of the instance to copy files to/from.
If not specified and the compute/zone property isn't set, you may be prompted to select a zone.
To avoid prompting when this flag is omitted, you can set the compute/zone property:

$ gcloud config set compute/zone ZONE

A list of zones can be fetched by running:

$ gcloud compute zones list

To unset the property, run:

$ gcloud config unset compute/zone

Alternatively, the zone can be stored in the environment variable CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_ZONE.

At most one of these may be specified:

--internal-ip

Connect to instances using their internal IP addresses rather than their external IP addresses. Use this to connect from one instance to another on the same VPC network, over a VPN connection, or between two peered VPC networks.
For this connection to work, you must configure your networks and firewall to allow SSH connections to the internal IP address of the instance to which you want to connect.
To learn how to use this flag, see cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/connecting-advanced#sshbetweeninstances

--tunnel-through-iap

Tunnel the ssh connection through the Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy.

GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS

EXAMPLES

$ gcloud beta compute scp --recurse example-instance:~/narnia \
    ~/wardrobe

$ gcloud beta compute scp ~/localtest.txt ~/localtest2.txt \
    example-instance:~/narnia

$ gcloud beta compute scp --recurse example-instance:~/narnia \
    ~/wardrobe --zone us-central1-a

$ gcloud beta compute scp --project "my-gcp-project" \
    --zone "us-east1-b" --recurse ~/foo-folder/ gcp-instance-name:~/

NOTES

$ gcloud compute scp $ gcloud alpha compute scp