How to download a file from the command line? via ssh?
I want to download files from a remote server to my local drive, and do it from the command line. I also want to be able to do this over SSH. How can I do this?
Note: the remote server is Ubuntu, the local is Mac OS X
Use scp-command, it runs on top of SSH. Example:
scp [email protected]:/path/to/file localfile
It also works another way round
scp localfile username@host:/path/remotefile
Username, path, and filename can be omitted (but not the : !).
As Iain said, SFTP works also, but I tend to favor scp for its cp-like usage.
You can also use rsync for it. It can work over SSH.