Apparently “scp” is another one of those commands I don’t use often enough to keep on my mental stack. The syntax is simple enough. I typically transpose the parameters then resort to a search.
Example syntax for Secure Copy scp.
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