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Karim Pazoki
Karim Pazoki

Reputation: 969

Error when download a file from server using scp

I wanna to download some files and directory from server using scp.

scp -p 3031 root@serverIP -D 1080:/dir_path/. /local_path/

But with this command I get some error:

cp: cannot stat '3031': No such file or directory

cp: cannot stat 'root@serverIP': No such file or directory

cp: cannot stat '-D': No such file or directory

ssh: connect to host 1080 port 22: Invalid argument

Can anybody help me please?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3155

Answers (2)

Jakuje
Jakuje

Reputation: 26016

The switches have their meaning and their order matters. The correct path (assuming you want to download a file) would be:

scp -P 3031 root@serverIP:/dir_path/file /local_path/

Synopsis in the manual page for scp should be your friend:

SYNOPSIS

scp [-12346BCpqrv] [-c cipher] [-F ssh_config] [-i identity_file] [-l limit] [-o ssh_option] [-P port] [-S program] [[user@]host1:]file1 ... [[user@]host2:]file2

Upvotes: 1

Samuel Robert
Samuel Robert

Reputation: 11092

Port argument should be passed with -P not -p

Try this

scp -p root@serverIP:/dir_path/ /local_path/ -P 3031

-p is for preserving modification and access times and modes of the original file

If you got the ssh key then try this

scp -i path/to/file.pem -p root@serverIP:/dir_path/ /local_path/ -P 3031

Upvotes: 1

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