[Linux] How to Download Files and Folders from Remote Server

To use scp to download a file from a remote server to your local machine, you can use the following syntax:

scp username@host:/path/to/remote/file /path/to/local/destination

This will download the file located at /path/to/remote/file on the remote server, and save it to /path/to/local/destination on your local machine.

You will need to replace username with your username on the remote server, host with the hostname or IP address of the remote server, and /path/to/remote/file and /path/to/local/destination with the actual paths to the remote file and the local destination, respectively.

If the remote server requires you to use a specific port to connect, you can use the -P flag to specify the port, like this:

scp -P portnumber username@host:/path/to/remote/file /path/to/local/destination

Replace portnumber with the actual port number that you need to use to connect to the remote server.

If you want to download a folder from the remote server, you can use the -r flag to tell scp to download the folder and its contents recursively. For example:

scp -r username@host:/path/to/remote/folder /path/to/local/destination

This will download the /path/to/remote/folder and all of its contents, including any subdirectories and files, and save it to /path/to/local/destination on your local machine.

Note: scp requires that you have an SSH connection to the remote server. If you don’t have an SSH connection, you can use the ssh command to establish one before running the scp command.