download a file from a linux google cloud server into my pc

Question

I have some pdf's into linux server and I want to download them into my pc. I am trying to use somthing like this

scp username@instance_name:/path_to_this_file/XXX.pdf C:\Users\username\Desctop

but isn't working, do you have any idea how to deal with that?

Answer 1

It would be helpful if you include in your question the errors you're receiving.

scp is a *nix command (not Windows) and so you likely can't use that command on Windows.

See: Transferring files to (from) Linux VMs

If you have a Linux shell (e.g. WSL) then the easiest way is probably to use gcloud compute scp which provides a wrapper around scp for you.