Exercise 03

Transfer MultiQC Report With scp Exercise

15 Minutes

We just learned how to use the MultiQC software to create excellent summary reports of our analysis. For convenience, we’ve included this report in the zipped folder you downloaded at the beginning of the class, so that it’s simple and effortless for us to view the report together. However, it’s also useful to know how to transfer data to/from a remote instance. We’ll explore how to use scp in this exercise.

Instructions:

• Work independently in the main room, posting any questions that arise to slack.
• Recommendations for writing your own code:
  • Read function documentation
  • Test out ideas - it’s okay to make mistakes and generate errors
  • Use a search engine to look up errors or recommended solutions using keywords
• We’ll review possible solutions after time is up as a group.

• Make sure that you are viewing your local terminal. The scp command should be run from your own machine.
• Use scp to transfer the comprehensive multiQC report from the AWS machine to your personal computer.
• Confirm that you’ve received the report

Hint: The command format is:

scp source destination

You will need to provide your ssh login information to complete the transfer