<quote who="Mike Egglestone">
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to copy a huge file from one server to another.
> but because it takes a long time, I would like to exit
> my remote shell that I used to login and run the scp command.
>
> I have tried with the " & " symbol after the command but no go.
> ex.
> scp /home/user/file.txt bigserver:/home/user2/ &

what about

scp /home/user/file.txt bigserver:/home/user2/ ; exit

?

nate



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