One of the interesting issue you may face is while scp, you get an error message and the file copy is skipped.
I. Error Message
[userA@NGEL-userA saket]$ scp userA@10.167.229.11:/tmp/NGEFTP.log_ngelinux001.tar.gz /tmp/ [userA@NGEL-userA saket]$ TERM environment variable not set. [userA@NGEL-userA saket]$
II. Solution
a. Check out the term variable.
$ set | grep TERM TERM=xterm
b. If TERM is set, it means the ssh session read out some commands in login profile file which needs a terminal.
Hence the issue here is with some echo, clear, etc commands in your .bashrc, .cshrc, or .bash_profile file.
Let me clear the text i have in my .cshrc file.
[userA@ngelinux001 ~]$ cat .cshrc echo "Welcome $USER" clear [userA@ngelinux001 ~]$ vi .cshrc [userA@ngelinux001 ~]$ [userA@ngelinux001 ~]$ logout Connection to 10.167.229.11 closed.
III. Issue resolved: Test now
[userA@NGEL-userA saket]$ scp -P 10022 userA@10.167.229.11:/tmp/NGEFTP.log_ngelinux001.tar.gz /tmp/ NGEFTP.log_ngelinux001.tar.gz 100% 1002KB 1.0MB/s 00:00 [userA@NGEL-userA saket]$