How to download a file from my server using SSH using PuTTY on Windows

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When I try downloading a file from my server onto my computer  it actually downloads the file onto the server    Note I am already SSH d into my server before typing this command  I ve watched tutorials on YouTube and people are using their terminal without SSHing into any particular server  however I don t think I can do this with PuTTY on Windows    scp -r -P2222 kwazy mywebsite com  home2 kwazy www utrecht-connected nl   Desktop    The problem is that I am specifying the location to download the file as only   Desktop   This creates a folder called Desktop in my server  instead of copying the files onto my local desktop   I d greatly appreciate any assistance     Update   I am able to use this command on Linux    I have successfully download the folder onto my desktop     I still need insight onto how I can do this on a Windows machine

User · Answer

OpenSSH has been added to Windows as of autumn 2018, and is included in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019.

So you can use it in command prompt or power shell like bellow.

C:\Users\Parsa>scp [email protected]:/etc/cassandra/cassandra.yaml F:\Temporary
[email protected]'s password:
cassandra.yaml                                  100%   66KB  71.3KB/s   00:00

C:\Users\Parsa>

(I know this question is pretty old now but this can be helpful for newcomers to this question)

User · Answer

try this scp -r -P2222 kwazy mywebsite com  home2 kwazy www utrecht-connected nl  Desktop  Another easier option if you re going to be pulling files left and right is to just use an SFTP client like WinSCP  Then you re not typing out 100 characters every time you want to pull something  just drag and drop   Edit  Just noticed  Desktop probably isn t where you re looking to download the file to  Should be something like C  Users you Desktop

User · Answer

If your server have a http service you can compress your directory and download the compressed file   Compress   tar -zcvf archive-name tar gz -C directory-name     Download throught your browser      http   the-server-ip archive-name tar gz   If you don t have direct access to the server ip  do a ssh tunnel throught putty  and forward the 80 port in some local port  and you can download the file

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There s no way to initiate a file transfer back to from local Windows from a SSH session opened in PuTTY window   Though PuTTY supports connection-sharing   While you still need to run a compatible file transfer client  pscp or psftp   no new login is required  it automatically  if enabled  makes use of an existing PuTTY session   To enable the sharing see  Sharing an SSH connection between PuTTY tools     Even without connection-sharing  you can still use the psftp or pscp from Windows command line   See How to use PSCP to copy file from Unix machine to Windows machine       Note that the scp is OpenSSH program  It s primarily  nix program  but you can run it via Windows Subsystem for Linux or get a Windows build from Win32-OpenSSH  it is already built-in in the latest versions of Windows 10      If you really want to download the files to a local desktop  you have to specify a target path as  USERPROFILE  Desktop  what typically resolves to a path like C  Users username Desktop      Alternative way is to use WinSCP  a GUI SFTP SCP client  While you browse the remote site  you can anytime open SSH terminal to the same site using Open in PuTTY command  See Opening Session in PuTTY   With an additional setup  you can even make PuTTY automatically navigate to the same directory you are browsing with WinSCP  See Opening PuTTY in the same directory    I m the author of WinSCP

User · Answer

You can use the WinSPC program  Its access to any server is pretty easy  The program gives its guide too  I hope it s helpfull

User · Answer

if you install git with git bash  you get SCP available on windows

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