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Commonly used set of commands for SCP
Copy the file "foobar.txt" from a remote host to the local host
$ scp username@remotehost:foobar.txt /some/local/directory
Copy the file "foobar.txt" from the local host to a remote host
$ scp foobar.txt username@remotehost:/some/remote/directory
Copy the directory "foo" from the local host to a remote host's directory "bar"
$ scp -r foo username@remotehost:/some/remote/directory/bar
Copy the file "foobar.txt" from the local host to a remote host using port 2264
$ scp -P 2264 foobar.txt username@remotehost:/some/remote/directory
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