Copy files from remote host to local machine with specific port using rsync. Alternative of scp. To copy a large number of files from remote.

copy-files-from-remote.sh

# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9090817/copying-files-using-rsync-from-remote-server-to-local-machine
# https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=rsync+-havzP+-e+%22ssh+-p+%24portNumber%22+user%40remote.host%3A%2Fpath%2Fto%2Fcopy+%2Flocal%2Fpath

# copy files from remote host with specific ssh port
rsync -havzP -e "ssh -p portNumber" user@remote.host:/path/to/copy /local/path

# copy abc into local def
rsync -avzP user@remote-host:/source/folder/abc /destinate/folder/def/

# copy the files in abc into local abc
rsync -avzP user@remote-host:/source/folder/abc/ /destinate/folder/abc/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9090817/copying-files-using-rsync-from-remote-server-to-local-machine

https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=rsync+-havzP+-e+%22ssh+-p+%24portNumber%22+user%40remote.host%3A%2Fpath%2Fto%2Fcopy+%2Flocal%2Fpath

Ref: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-rsync-to-sync-local-and-remote-directories

tar -c <source-dir> | ssh <name>@<host> 'tar -kxzf - -C <target-dir>' 

rsync -a --ignore-existing /local/directory/ host:/remote/directory/

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/14191/scp-without-replacing-existing-files-in-the-destination