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echo: rberrypi
to: JACK LOBINGIER
from: THEO
date: 2017-02-13 16:28:00
subject: Re: SCP script with Pytho

Jack Lobingier  wrote:
> I have an SCP script that auto completes just fine from the terminal window
in Pi.  When I use either subprocess or os to try and have it run under Python
it does not do the file transfer from Pi to my Ubuntu machine.  What am I doing
wrong?  Here is 
the script:
>
> from subprocess import call
> cmd='scp -i id_rsa sample.txt jack@192.168.1.103 /home/jack/pi_data'
> call (cmd.split ())

My guess is it is not finding the id_rsa file because the script isn't
picking up the current working directory.  Try with the full path to the
file. (and the full path to scp too maybe)

Theo

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