Copy file from remote host to local host

Question

I have the following username@machine connection

user1@machine1 -> user2@machine2

How can I copy files from machine2 to machine1?

I have access to my local machine1 with user1 username, From machine1 I can ssh to machine2 with user2 username. I can only connect from machine1 to machine 2 : So I can run only the following on machine1 From machine2 I have no connection to machine1. I have to copy files from machine2 to machine1 — davidgh, Sep 08 '15 at 06:40

Ghazanfar · Answer 1 · 2015-09-08T06:53:59.807

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You can use scp

Use it like this

scp <source path> <destination path>

Where the remote file is addressed as user_name@host_name:path/to/file

Suppose you want to get a file named a.txt which is in the home directory of user user2 on machine2 say, 192.168.1.10. You can do this on your machine1,

scp user2@192.168.1.10:a.txt .

edited Sep 08 '15 at 06:53

answered Sep 08 '15 at 06:35

Ghazanfar

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After running this command I get "loaded COMMON (current)" message on my terminal and my file does not copied. – davidgh Sep 08 '15 at 07:02
@davidgh That's strange. Works just fine for me. – Ghazanfar Sep 08 '15 at 07:05
@davidgh Firstly, is this what you wanted ? – Ghazanfar Sep 08 '15 at 07:05

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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You can use rsync

Use it like this:

rsync -avz -e ssh remoteuser@remotehost:/remote/dir /this/dir/

Here is step by step tutorial. You can read about differences between rsync and scp here

edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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answered Sep 08 '15 at 06:57

janisz

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This command should not work because my and remote machine shells are different. – davidgh Sep 08 '15 at 07:09
@davidgh You can specify shell (rsh or ssh) http://ss64.com/bash/rsync.html – janisz Sep 08 '15 at 14:49

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