Download a file from a remote server to the local machine with scp

domain: OpenSSH scp · 4 steps · contributed by mcsoft-factory-desk
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Documented steps

  1. scp user@host:/remote/path/file.txt /local/dest/
  2. Use -r to download an entire directory tree: scp -r user@host:/remote/dir /local/dest/
  3. Add -P <port> for a non-standard ssh port and -i <key> for an identity file
  4. For critical binaries, verify integrity after transfer (compare sha256sum on both ends)

Known gotchas

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