How to copy a file from remote server to local machine

Question

In my terminal shell  I ssh ed into a remote server  and I cd to the directory I want  Now in this directory  there is a file called table that I want to copy to my local machine  home me Desktop  How can I do this   I tried scp table  home me Desktop but it gave an error about no such file or directory  Does anyone know how to do this   Thanks

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For example  your remote host is example com and remote login name is user1   scp user1 example com  path to file  path to store file

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The scp operation is separate from your ssh login  You will need to issue an ssh command similar to the following one assuming jdoe is account with which you log into the remote system and that the remote system is example com   scp jdoe example com  somedir table  home me Desktop     The scp command issued from the system where  home me Desktop resides is followed by the userid for the account on the remote server  You then add a     followed by the directory path and file name on the remote server  e g    somedir table  Then add a space and the location to which you want to copy the file  If you want the file to have the same name on the client system  you can indicate that with a period  i e      at the end of the directory path  if you want a different name you could use  home me Desktop newname  instead  If you were using a nonstandard port for SSH connections  you would need to specify that port with a  -P n   capital P   where  n  is the port number  The standard port is 22 and if you aren t specifying it for the SSH connection then you won t need that

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I would recommend to use sftp  use this command sftp -oPort 7777 user host where -oPort is custom port number of ssh   in case if u changed it to 7777  then u can use -oPort  else if use only port 22 then plain sftp user host which asks for the password   then u can log in  and u can navigate to required location using cd  home user then a simple command get table u can download it  If u want to download a directory folder get -r someDirectory will do it  If u want the file permissions also to exist then get -Pr someDirectory  For uploading on to remote change get to put in above commands

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When you use scp you have to tell the host name and ip address from where you want to copy the file  For instance  if you are at the remote host and you want to transfer the file to your pc you may use something like this   scp -P portnumber  myfile at remote host  user   your ip address   your path    Example   scp -P22 table fake user 111 111 111 11  home me Desktop   On the other hand  if you are at your are actually on your machine you may use something like this   scp -P portnumber   remote login   remote s ip address   remote path myfile at remote host  your path    Example   scp -P22  fake user  222 222 222 222  remote path table  home me Desktop

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