Download a file from remote server in UNIX

Question

I have a file on a remote server that I can connect to via ssh. I would like to copy the file from the remote server at the path: '/home/example.txt' to my computer's desktop.

Should I be using wget, sftp, ftp, or simply rm?

Bonus points if you know a good resource for UNIX documentation, since google's results were not great.

Answer 1

Try Filezilla Utility More info on http://filezilla-project.org/

Answer 2

scp or rcp if you don't want/need to be secured. Or alternatively rsync will be nicer for anything more complicated with remote file transferring on a regular basis.

For the documentation, look at the man pages, ex: man scp. Or online at

• http://linux.die.net/man/1/scp
• http://linux.die.net/man/1/rcp
• http://linux.die.net/man/1/rsync

Answer 3

None of them, you should use scp

Answer 4

Use scp(1):

~$ scp user@host:/home/example.txt .