Copying files from host onto my computer using ssh
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Copying files from host onto my computer using ssh
Hi,
I have ssh'ed into a remote computer. I want to transfer a file from that computer onto my computer. I know how to do exactly the opposite (using scp)
What would be the syntax for doing this?
the opposite as in copy from your computer to the remote one? Just change the options around on the scp command line like you would do for any other file copy command:
So in this case,
file.txt is the file on the server that I want to copy?
There are two file.txt what should each one of them be?
Thanks!
Quote:
Originally Posted by acid_kewpie
the opposite as in copy from your computer to the remote one? Just change the options around on the scp command line like you would do for any other file copy command:
Hi,
I have ssh'ed into a remote computer. I want to transfer a file from that computer onto my computer. I know how to do exactly the opposite (using scp)
What would be the syntax for doing this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks!
Best,
Adwait
If you know the exact location of the file, maybe its easier using rsync instead. You dont have to logged into remote server.
Code:
rsync -avH -e ssh --progress localfilename user@remoteserver:/fullpath_on_remote
eg : rsync -avH -e ssh --progress /home/user/*.txt root@192.168.1.1:/var/www/html
: upload local file to server
or
rsync -avH -e ssh --progress user@remoteserver:/fullpath_on_remote localpath
eg : rsync -avH -e ssh --progress admin@192.168.1.1:/var/www/html/*.html /home/geek/
: download *.html files from server to local path /home/geek/
why would you use rsync just for that? Quite some overkill no?
I never used scp before. But I'd just give it a try and it looks like rsync too.
Frankly speak I have no idea about the differences between them, or maybe its security issue ?
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