Copy A File From RemoteHost to LocalHost

DESCRIPTION:

• Consider we want to copy test.txt file from remote machine(192.168.2.5) to local machine(192.168.1.10)
• We need to use scp(secure copy) command to establish above need
• For this you want the root password of the remote host.

COMMAND:

    scp  <remote username>@<remote ipaddress>:<source with path> <dest path with file name>

    example:

    scp root@192.168.2.5:/home/remote/test.txt /home/user/Desktop/test.txt

• It will ask the remote machine password to enter
• Now file will successfully copy to remote machine