100 Useful Command-Line Utilities

by Oliver; 2014

28. scp

If you have ssh access to a remote computer and want to copy its files to your local computer, you can use scp according to the syntax:

scp username@host:/some/path/on/remote/machine /some/path/on/my/machine

However, I would advise using rsync instead of scp: it does the same thing only better.