[Linux-disciples] Copying amongst machines via scp

[Stephen R Laniel]

Suppose I want to download a file from a server called host1
to my machine, but that I can only connect to host1 via
host2. Normally the way I do this is just

ssh host2
scp host1:[filename] ~	# download from host1 to host2
[suspend ssh session to host2]
scp host2:[filename] ~	# download from host2 to client
[resume ssh session to host2]
rm [filename]	# delete file off host2
exit	# quit out of host2

There must be some way to do this entirely using ssh
commands. For instance, if I wanted to *cat* the file on
host1, I could do

ssh host2 ssh host1 cat [filename]

and that would work fine. I could do
 
ssh host2 ssh host1 cat [filename] > ~/local_filename

to solve the scp problem, but is there some way to do it
that's less hackish?

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Stephen R. Laniel
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