How To Use The scp Command to Copy a File From Remote to Local (and vice versa)

Learn how securely copy a local file to a remote server or IP with the scp command (as well as download a remote file to your local computer). This tutorial will be working with the Terminal app that's built into Mac and most Linux operating systems.
Code snippets and more at tonyteaches.tech/scp-tutorial/
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#scp #terminal #securecopy

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I know this is 2 years old, but just wanted to comment to say this helped me more in 7 minutes than googling for 35. Thank you so much!

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[@TonyTeachesTech]

Happy to help!

[@pasindubalasooriya4693]

​@@TonyTeachesTech "Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic).
lost connection"
This happens when I give scp command to copy from my mac to oracle cloud. What can I do?

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This was simplified and straight to the point. Thank you so much.

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I know this is 3 years old, but just wanted to comment to say this helped me more in 7 minutes than.....:)

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Your video saved me after at least two hours of frustrated attempts to download my source code from the Linux server to turn in for homework. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

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That is a briliant, enjoyful, beautiful explanation. Thank you for helping us!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're very welcome!

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Love the chill attitude along with the chill explanation

[@TonyTeachesTech]

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[@user-ob9oz6qb5i]

Excellent resource on how to use scp. So many examples get it wrong *or* complicate things by getting bogged down with unnecessary details. After this I was able to do both remote client copy with ease. Thanks, decided to subscribe as well. 👌

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're very welcome Jimmy

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[@TonyTeachesTech]

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[@TonyTeachesTech]

Glad it was helpful!

[@wesley_makes]

Thank you! My school compiles our files on a RedHat server for grading. We're supposed to FTP our programs to there to make certain they compile, but the professor didn't demonstrate well, and some of the TA's don't know how to do this without a GUI. Halfway through the semester, and you finally teach me what I was supposed to learn in week one! I've been getting away with by installing a Linux distro on my old laptop, but now I know how to do it properly. Thank you again!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

😅 Is this college? Happy you found me!

[@kennethlopez6334]

My professor sucks. All it says is move the file to the home directory... no demonstration.

[@brandypaz1917]

i am also using red hat for one of my classes and i noticed alot of people these days are lost without a gui and dont have much experience with using the command line... why???

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[@TonyTeachesTech]

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Thank you!
I was constantly making a small mistake that you showed me :)
Now everything is working :)

[@TonyTeachesTech]

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[@TonyTeachesTech]

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[@TonyTeachesTech]

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[@TonyTeachesTech]

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[@davidaj9235]

@@TonyTeachesTech btw it works as it asks for the password however the connection is timing out apparently. Would you know why that is?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

@@davidaj9235 hmm, nothing comes to mind. You can try to add the -v flag to run the command in verbose mode which will provide you extra output as the command is running. This may help you debug what the problem is

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[@monkeyterror65]

You don't wanna know how much time I spent trying to copy from linux server -> Mac while on my server. Never even thought I had to do the scp not on my local terminal. Thanks sm

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Thanks! Happy to hear that Daniel

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you are my saviour... i was reading on google that i need to install this and that.. use ftp and useless shit... i knew there was an easy way
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[@Gomtangyeeee]

Thanks for the video! I have one question, does it applies the same way without using password ssh connection?

[@kapofimweuhala8984]

Hi Tony., thank you for sharing, have a quick question how do i transfer data between two HPC account?

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[@TonyTeachesTech]

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[@pwpw9190]

how would you do the above, but instead of step by step, its a script that gets scheduled on the linux machine that gets run on a predefined scheduled, where it copies a bunch of files from the windows machine INTO the linux machine. The script is running on the linux machine twice daily where the authentication is also in script or happens automatically and there is no need to type it in manually ?

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[@Alvarobarja]

How should I do if I have a public/provate key to acces to the server?

[@rahmarahma-zu6oz]

in case we want to copy only the modified / the new files using scp , is there a way to do it

[@chrispetersen3613]

The “curly thing” is called a tilde. I’ve heard it pronounced “til-duh.” Thanks for the vid!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

That's right! Tilde :)
Thanks!

[@AlexRonai]

Thank you for the tutorial! I wanted to know, is it possible to copy multiple files at once? Or instead of files, copy a directory? Also, I'm using a vagrant box that I connect in SSH in VSCode, is it possible to open in Finder the remote directory to open the file directly in MacOS without copying them? Like for example having HTML file in the remote and opening them in Safari.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

I would zip or tar the files first, then do the copy in the same way

[@abe488]

Thank You! I had forgotten how to do this!!! From my local Linux terminal, I used Scp to copy a folder using “-r”, to copy a folder from a remote machine to my local Linux machine.
I thought you can also do from the remote machines terminal to the local machine. Isn’t there a way?

[@naureenjafri3836]

Can we transfer files which are DATE specific using SCP?

[@vikasbhardwaj4079]

How can we tranfer file from Ubuntu (remote) server to Windows (local machine) . Without using Windows system. I want to use only linux machine and commands to transfer file from ubuntu to local. Is there any way to do that ?

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[@TonyTeachesTech]

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[@EASchmidtE]

Thank you! It's called a tilde btw

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Oh thanks!

[@tanner6492]

Great Tony. Very clean explanation.
Which port we have to open?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks! By default, scp runs over TCP port 22

[@umakha]

Is it the only command for copying files between two machines? What about the directories and their children?

[@SHUBHAMBHAVSAR999]

ssh: Could not resolve hostname ip-172-34-11-61: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
lost connection
I am getting this error when i try to copy file from my laptop to remote server. Please help here