#secure copy protocol

How to copy file from an SSH server to the local computer

On Linux systems, it is very easy to copy the files from one computer to another with the secure copy protocol.

Suppose you are logged into the server with SSH and you want to copy the file: /home/user/dummy.txt from the current server folder to your local path: /var/dummy.txt

  Do the following steps:

Exit from the ssh connection.

Make sure that you are logged into your local machine.

Execute…