Copying files from server to local computer using SSH

Question

I am having trouble copying files from a remote server using SSH  Using PuTTY I log in to the server using SSH  Once I find the file I would like to copy over to my computer  I use the command   scp username host com  dir of file txt  local dir    It looks like it was successful  but it only ends up creating a new folder labeled  localdir  in the remote directory  dir of    How can I copy the file to my local computer over SSH

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Your question is a bit confusing  but I am assuming - you are first doing  ssh  to find out which files or rather specifically directories are there and then again on your local computer  you are trying to scp  all  files in that directory to local path  you should simply do scp -r    So here in your case it d be something like   local gt  scp -r username host com  path to dir local path    If youare using some other executable that provides  scp like functionality   refer to it s manual for recursively copying files

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Make sure the scp command is available on both sides - both on the   client and on the server    BOTH Server and Client  otherwise you will encounter this kind of  weird error message on your client  scp  command not found or something similar even though though you have it all configured locally

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It depends on what your local OS is   If your local OS is Unix-like  then try   scp username remoteHost  remote dir file txt  local dir    If your local OS is Windows  then you should use pscp exe utility  For example  below command will download file txt from remote to D  disk of local machine   pscp exe username remoteHost  remote dir file txt d     It seems your Local OS is Unix  so try the former one     For those who don t know what pscp exe is and don t know where it is  you can always go to putty official website to download it  And then open a CMD prompt  go to the pscp exe directory where you put it  Then execute the command as provided above

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that scp command must be issued on the local command-line   for putty the command is pscp   C  something gt  pscp username host com  dir of file txt  local dir

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You need to name the file in both directory paths   scp username host com  dir of file txt  local dir file txt

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