using scp in terminal

Question

I have created a file on a remote computer that I have ssh-ed into  I want to transfer the file back to the laptop I am using at the moment  I see that I am supposed to use the command   scp username server  home username file name  home local-username file-name   But I m not still not sure of what I should use for my laptop  which is a macbook   For  home  I guess I use the path that appears when I type pwd into my terminal when it opens   I try this and I get the message   No such file or directory   I know this is easy stuff but I ve not done it before  Any help would be great  Thank you

User · Answer

Simple      scp remoteusername remoteIP  path of file  Local path to copy  scp -r remoteusername remoteIP  path of folder  Local path to copy

User · Answer

You can download in the current directory with a      cd   by default  goes to  HOME scp me host  path to file     or in you HOME directly with    scp me host  path to file

User · Answer

I would open another terminal on your laptop and do the scp from there  since you already know how to set that connection up   scp username remotecomputer  path to file you want to copy where to put file on laptop   The username remotecomputer is the same string you used with ssh initially

[terminal] using scp in terminal

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