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This article is about the scp command.
The command scp is used to copy files across ssh connection. You can use scp to copy files from or to a remote host. Using ssh for data transfer provides the same authentication and same level of security as ssh.
Examples:
Copy the file "foobar.txt" from a remote host to the local host
scp nicolep@remotehost.com:foobar.txt /usr/local/download
Copy the file "foobar.txt" from the local host to a remote host
scp foobar.txt nicolep@remotehost.com:/usr/local/download
More examples:
Recursively copy entire directories. This will get all the web directories and sub-directories and copy to the local machine
scp -r bob@10.0.0.1:/home/httpd/html/* /home/httpd/html
The -r is the flag for recursive
Now to copy all files in the current working directory to a remote server web directory
scp * nicolep@10.0.0.9:/var/www/html
