• Create a directory and a file in the user’s home directory. • Using scp, copy both the file and the directory to the remote Linux VM where the SSH daemon is running.

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To create a directory and a file in the user's home directory, you can use the following commands:

cd ~
mkdir my_directory
touch my_file.txt

This will create a directory named "my_directory" and a file named "my_file.txt" in the user's home directory.

To copy both the file and the directory to the remote Linux VM using scp, you can use the following command:

scp -r my_directory my_file.txt username@remote_host:/remote/directory/

Replace "my_directory" and "my_file.txt" with the names of the directory and file you created earlier. Replace "username" and "remote_host" with your username and the IP address or hostname of the remote Linux VM. Finally, replace "/remote/directory/" with the path to the directory on the remote VM where you want to copy the files.

Note that the "-r" option in the scp command is used to copy the directory recursively, i.e., it will copy all the files and subdirectories inside the directory.