scp: secure copy

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scp — secure copy (remote file copy program)

Copy remote files to local machine:
This example using admin as the admin user to login to host. This will prompt for password to remote host and copt to desktop

scp admin@remotehost.edu:/Users//Desktop/test2move.txt ~/Desktop/test2moved.txt

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 host to a remote host’s directory “bar”
scp -r foo your_username@remotehost.edu:/some/remote/directory/bar

Copy the file “foobar.txt” from remote host “rh1.edu” to remote host “rh2.edu”
scp your_username@rh1.edu:/some/remote/directory/foobar.txt \ your_username@rh2.edu:/some/remote/directory/

Copying the files “foo.txt” and “bar.txt” from the local host to your home directory on the remote host
scp foo.txt bar.txt your_username@remotehost.edu:~

Copy multiple files from the remote host to your current directory on the local host
scp your_username@remotehost.edu:/some/remote/directory/\{a,b,c\} .
scp your_username@remotehost.edu:~/\{foo.txt,bar.txt\} .

Link:
https://gist.github.com/michaelminter/7377743

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