Sharing files with your partner

Later this semester we will learn a better way to share files, but for now, you should either email or scp your shared solution to your partner's directory after a joint editing session. Be careful with scp as it will wipe-out previous contents. I'd suggest doing the following:

# assume partner A has been logged in this time and you are working together on
# partner A's copy of your joint solution, to give partner B a copy partner A 
# should do:
# scp source    destination
$ scp alu.circ  partnerB_username@lab.cs.swarthmore.edu:./cs31/labs/02/.

# partnerB will enter his/her password and the file will be copied
# into their /cs31/labs/02/ subdirectory

You can also copy into a different subdirectory and then use the mv file to move the file into the right subdirectory

$ scp alu.circ  partnerB_username@lablab.cs.swarthmore.edu:./cs31/new_alu.circ

# then partnerB can mv new_alu.c into his/her lab/02 directory (this is a 
# slightly safer way to scp because you won't just wipe out previous alu.circ 
# file contents in your cs31/labs/02/ subdirectory
$ cd cs31

# mv source    destination
$ mv new_alu.circ labs/02/alu.circ

If you email the files back and forth you can use the mv command to move the file into your labs/02/ directory too.

From whichever directory you saved the attached alu.circ file from your email into do:

mv  alu.circ  ~/cs31/labs/02/.     # ~/ is an alias for /home/you/