title: Upload to AWS EC2 via Putty command line
body: <p>I have tried code entered into the putty command line such as 
  rsync -avz myHugeFile.dat amazonusername@my.amazon.host.ip:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24891861/trouble-uploading-large-files-to-rstudio-using-louis-asletts-ami-on-ec2">Trouble Uploading Large Files to RStudio using Louis Aslett&#39;s AMI on EC2</a>
  (code taken from the linked question above)</p>
  
  <p>Though I could not get it to work and I think this was due to not knowing how to properly frame it in light of the location of the files.
  I am putting this as a separate question rather than a comment as I don't have enough 'reputation' to comment. in the context of a windows user asking this
  1) Was I correct to use this in Putty?
  2) Did I need to put anything before it?
  3) the only things editable are the address of the EC2 so I have that correct and the location of the file.  If the file is on the desktop, how would I write this?<br>
  Even if you can only answer one of these basic questions it would be really helpful as I piece together code on how to do this.
  If this question is too basic for this site and your are going to remove, could you please give me an answer before doing so ;)</p>