How to pass password to scp command in bash script

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If you need to use the scp commmand in a bash script, the simplest way is through the tool sshpass:

yaourt -S sshpass

The usage is the follow:

sshpass -p 'password' scp file.tar.gz [email protected]:/PATH

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