How to copy files to a remote machine with powershell 5 (the easy way)

> $creds = Get-Credential
> $session = New-PSSession -ComputerName "myremotemachine.mydomain.com" -UseSSL -Credential $creds
> Copy-Item -Path "C:\my\folder\somewhere" -Destination "C:\path\on\remote\machine" -ToSession $session

Done and done. This assumes that you have PowerShell set up for PSRemoting on the remote machine with a certificate. There's plenty of other tutorials for doing that.

Copying files in linux

Lately I've been doing a lot of embedded development with Linux, and copying files between systems has been a bit of a pain. Fortunately, a combination of RSync and SSH solved my problems, with a command that lets me copy files from a directory on one system to a directory on another system, recursively with symlink preservation (and even duplication !) :

rsync -azuv -e ssh  user@systemaddress:~/path/to/dir/* .