How To Scp Files Between Machines
How to Secure Copy (SCP) files between machines#
Note: Rsync is a more performant tool
Copy from another machine to local
scp <username>@<server>:/path/to/file.txt /local/dir
Copy from local machine to remote machine
scp file.txt <username>@<server>:/path/to/directory
Copy full directory from remote host to local
scp -r <username>@<server>:/path/to/directory /local/dir
Copy full directory from local to remote host
scp -r <dirname> <username>@<server>:/path/to/directory
Copy files between 2 remote hosts from local
scp <username>@<server1>:/some/dir/file.txt \ <username>@<server2>:/some/directory/