Picloud scp with rsa file not working

Question

I am using picloud which is a high performance cloud service run on top of amazon ec2. I am trying to copy files into a newly created "environment" in my account. I am however unable to use the scp command to copy files from my local machine into picloud env that I have created.

The usual way to SSH into the picloud env is as follows:

ssh -i picloud_rsa [email protected]

But when I try to replace ssh with scp using the following format:

scp -r ~/path_to_the_directory -i picloud_rsa [email protected]

I get the following error:

cp: -i: No such file or directory
cp: [email protected]/picloud_rsa: Permission 

And If I try the following:

scp -r ~/Desktop/AllFolders/GMU/Fall\ 2013/yelp_phoenix_academic_dataset_duplicated/ picloud_rsa [email protected]

I get just the permission denied error:

 cp: [email protected]/picloud_rsa: Permission denied

I have absolutely no idea how to use scp in this case and would really appreciate any help.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

The query I used was:

 scp -i picloud_rsa -r ~/my_path_to_directory [email protected]:/home/picloud

The solution was to pass the -i flag along with the rsa file in the beginning right after the scp call.