scp

Secure copy over SSH.

$ scp ":"

Remote userRemote hostRemote file(s)

Local destination

Recursive (-r)Compress (-C)Preserve attributes (-p)

Examples

# Copy file from remote
scp user@example.com:/remote/file.txt .

# Recursive from remote
scp -r user@example.com:/remote/dir/ /local/dir/

# Multiple files
scp user@host:/file1.txt user@host:/file2.txt /local/dir/