Once you establish an SSH session with the remote machine, locate the file you wish to copy. The "scp" command is a better option if you have only a few files to transfer. The "-p" flag preserved ...

I frequently find myself in the situation where I'm SSH'd to a server and I want to copy a remote file to my local machine. Usually I end up opening up a local terminal and writing out the SCP ...

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Either of these commands let you securely transfer files between computers, but there are good reasons to know them both.

With this handy command, you can compare different files between local and remote machines without having to first copy the files to or from one machine to another. As always, it’s better to ...