Introduction If you are anything like me, this is one of those things you likely do so infrequently that you forget how to do it virtually every time you need to. To save any head scratching next time here is
Examples Copy the file “foobar.txt” from a remote host to the local host $ scp your_username@remotehost.edu:foobar.txt /some/local/directory Copy the file “foobar.txt” from the local host to a remote host $ scp foobar.txt your_username@remotehost.edu:/some/remote/directory Copy the directory “foo” from the local