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The 'logfile' needs to be specified to be in an existing directory on the local computer. It will contain what usually appears on the scree when executing the command.
Note: One cannot put the transfer command in the background if one needs to enter a password and/or authenticate!!!
You can avoid getting asked to enter a password by adding the content of your public ssh-key from your local computer, for example ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub, to the file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the remote computer.
To avoid having to authenticate when transferring data from/to Narval you will have to follow the steps on our wiki under:
https://wikienseignement.uqam.ca/display/EDDSDLTEL/Multifactor+authentication#Multifactorauthentication-Automatedworkflows
Examples
a) Narval → UQAM
To copying data from Narval to a computer at UQAM one needs to go on the UQAM computer and fetch the data from Narval with, for example:
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