How do I copy a folder from remote to local host using scp? I use ssh to log in to my server. Then, I would like to copy the remote folder foo to local /home/user/Desktop. How do I achieve this?

Jun 19, 2015 · I have some n number of files in a directory on my unix system. Is there a way to write a shellscript that will transfer all those files via scp to a specified remote system. I'll specify the passw...

Mar 5, 2015 · In my terminal shell, I ssh'ed into a remote server, and I cd to the directory I want. Now in this directory, there is a file called table that I want to copy to my local machine /home/me/Desktop...

Nov 27, 2013 · The major difference between these tools is how they copy files. scp basically reads the source file and writes it to the destination. It performs a plain linear copy, locally, or over a network. rsync also copies files locally or over a network. But it employs a special delta transfer algorithm and a few optimizations to make the operation a lot faster. Consider the call. rsync A …

Aug 20, 2013 · I need to write a script that transfers files from a folder onto another server (Linux), but the script that's transferring files is on windows, and I was wondering if there was an alternative to s...

Jul 9, 2012 · I am trying to use my Mac Terminal to scp a file from Downloads (phpMyAdmin I downloaded online) to my Amazon EC2 instance. The command I used was: scp -i myAmazonKey.pem phpMyAdmin-3.4.5-all-langu...

This isn't "scp with regular expressions", the one handling the file globs is the shell. scp just gets handed the already expanded list of files. And the expansion happens on the machine where the command is run.

Jul 17, 2015 · I am trying to copy few files to a target system using scp and then login to the system and install those files. I used scp and ssh commands here with ssh keys for passwordless authentication. The...

You could use something like the following scp -r linux_username@linux_address:path/to/file path/to/local/directory This will copy file to the specified local directory on the system you are currently working on. The -r flag tells scp to recursively copy if the remote file is a directory.

According to the needs of the experiment, I set the MTU to 8000. After doing this, when I use scp to copy large files, it stalled with 0.00%. I tried scp -l or scp -C and turning tcp_sack on/off, b...