How to Download or Upload Files via SSH / SCP
Too lazy to download a specialized FTP app? No worries. You can download or upload files to your server directly via your terminal / SSH with these few simple commands.
To download from the server
$ scp [email protected]:/var/www/remote_file.txt local_file.txt
With custom port number (eg. 2222):
$ scp -P 2222 [email protected]:/var/www/remote_file.txt local_file.txt
To upload to the server
$ scp local_file.txt [email protected]:/var/www/remote_file.txt
With custom port number (eg. 2222):
$ scp -P 2222 local_file.txt [email protected]:/var/www/remote_file.txt
That's all!
***