Hi,

I like to copy a file from the server to local host. What will be the command? I can ssh to server and now want to copy the file to my local directory. I am using Redhat.

Thanks.

Can you reach the local machine from the server by IP? Or on other words, are you on a host that the server can contact on the LAN, rather than being behind a firewall/NAT at a remote location (as in, from a school, office, etc).

If the server and the client are on the same network, you can simply log into the server with SSH, and run a command like this:

scp ./filename username@localIP

So if you wanted to move the file "Test.txt" to the computer at 192.168.1.120 as user tom, you would do:

scp ./Test.txt tom@192.168.1.120

Assuming the machine is running an SSH server, that will copy the file over to it.

Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply. Following command works very fine. but I was not able to trace it in local machine. I was not able to find the copied file in local machine. From the server it says 100% complete.

the local user name is root@IP address. Where I will find it? Thanks.

Regards,
Fazlur.

try /root. Or run find / -name 'filename'

Hi foysol_bgd,
you can do this:-
scp file.txt root@server:/root/file.txt (or /home/root/ if you lazy)
scp -r folder root@server:/root (for recusively copy folder)
Regards,
Ks

Yes, my apologies.

After the user and IP address of the destination, you need to give the location you want to save the file to.

So the full command would look like:

scp ./Test.txt tom@192.168.1.120:/home/tom

thanks everyone for the help. I really appreciate that. It is working fine now.

Rather than ssh'ing to the server and performing an scp on the server, which establishes a 2nd ssh connection back from the server to your local machine, you're better off doing it all in one scp command on the local host:
In other words, scp accepts user@server: prefixes to path for both source and destination...

Thanks timmeke. It is great.