With the release PowerShell Core 6, the PowerShell Team brought PowerShell to other platforms like Linux and macOS. This new cross-platform approach allows users to take advantage of some pretty cool features. In this blog post, I am quickly going to show you, how you can use PowerShell Remoting to copy files from Windows to Linux systems.

PowerShell Core enables a new feature, PowerShell Remoting Over SSH , SSH remoting lets you do basic PowerShell session remoting between Windows and Linux machines.

As you already know from Windows PowerShell Remoting, we can use a PowerShell remoting session to copy files to a remote system, using the Copy-Item cmdlet with the -ToSession parameter.

First, you need to make sure that you have installed and configured PowerShell and SSH Remoting. You can find more here: Setup PowerShell SSH Remoting in PowerShell 6

After that you can create a new PowerShell session:

$s = New-PSSession -HostName 137.117.136.159 -UserName Thomas

You can then simply use the Copy-Item cmdlet to copy the file to the specific session:

Copy-Item .\windows.txt /home/thomas -ToSession $s

I hope this gives you a great option to copy files from Windows to Linux using PowerShell Remoting. Thanks to Matjaz Znidar (Microsoft PFE) for the great idea.