scp

Networking

Securely copy files between hosts over SSH

Options & Flags

Available options for this command

-r

Recursively copy directories

-P port

Specify SSH port

-i keyfile

Use specific private key

Examples

Common usage examples

Copy local file to remote server

scp file.txt user@remote:/path/

Copy remote file to local directory

scp user@remote:/path/file.txt .

Copy directory recursively

scp -r directory/ user@remote:/path/

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