<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