Does anyone know how to do this? Improve this question. If you find yourself copying with scp often, you can mount the remote directory in your file browser and drag-and-drop. Alternatively, one can use sshfs to mount the remote machine's filesystem on the host. But that setup is a little more involved. Give rsync a try. It's great both for local and remote copies, gives you copy progress, etc.
An example — sakisk. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Rui F Ribeiro Just invoke SCP followed by the remote username , , the IP address or host , colon, and the path to the file. Then, define the local path where the file will be stored locally. The scp command was designed to be similar to the cp command. A simple scp example to copy a remote file to the local device would be:. In my case, I will copy the file named linuxhint from the remote device Then, I specify the current directory as the local location to store the file by typing a dot:.
Improve this answer. NateS 5, 4 4 gold badges 47 47 silver badges 56 56 bronze badges. Gryphius Gryphius 70k 6 6 gold badges 44 44 silver badges 52 52 bronze badges. I google this every time. Related comic: xkcd. Two nice-to-knows I found: the -C flag adds compression and the -c flag lets you pass in other cipher types for better performance, like scp -c blowfish a b:something.
This answer lacks important explanation. Toskan with scp -r user your. With scp -r user your. Show 9 more comments. For more information see related questions: How to enable autocompletion for remote paths when using scp? SherylHohman Alexander Yancharuk Alexander Yancharuk Did not know about the config file, this is awesome! Tab completion is nonsense, just completes from the local host for me. Hope you're able to see relations. Bernhard For me is was obvious because I'm using bash-shell.
Thanks for pointing me on that! Answer updated. You need to have authenticated access to these two Linux environments and some familiarity with the Linux command-line interface. Firstly, you should know the username and the IP address or hostname of the remote server from where you wish to retrieve a specific file.
Secondly, you should accurately specify the relative path to your download file location on the remote server and the relative path to the download file storage location on your desktop computer. You can achieve successful file downloads from a remote Linux server environment to a Linux desktop environment through three techniques. If you have a recent OpenSSH 8. With older versions but at least 7.
If you are using an earlier version of OpenSSH which doesn't support ProxyJump, you would replace it with the equivalent:. The beauty of ssh is that you can configure each destination on the file, and they will stack very nicely. Thus you end up working with office-machine as the hostname on all the tools ssh, scp, sftp Once configured correctly, the only difference between doing one hop connections or twenty would be the slower connection times.
Multiple proxies may be separated by comma characters and will be visited sequentially. Setting this option will cause ssh 1 to connect to the target host by first making a ssh 1 connection to the specified ProxyJump host and then establishing a TCP forwarding to the ultimate target from there.
There is an ancient protocol called ZMODEM : few programs support it these days, but when it works, it can be pretty convenient. An example script is available here. Now all you have to do is ssh to your office machine, and run sz filename. The file will be downloaded via your terminal. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.
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