#Ssh copy folder from remote to local update#
#Ssh copy folder from remote to local password#

#Ssh copy folder from remote to local password#

By default, the scp command works with SSH username and password but SSH can work also as passwordless. The scp command uses the SSH infrastructure and password authentication done via SSH.

#Ssh copy folder from remote to local update#

$ scp -P 2222 -r :/home/ismail/backup /mnt/drive Passwordless Directory Download or Update This option can be used for both download and upload. In the following example, the scp command uses TCP 2222 as a remote system port number. If the remote system SSH service is running differently than the default TCP 22 port the -P option can be used to specify a non-default SSH port like below. $ scp -r /var/backup :/home/ismail/backup Use Different scp Port $ scp -r /var/backup 192.168.122.10:/home/ismail/backupīy default the current username is used for the scp command but we can specify the remote system username like below which is ismail in this case. Then the remote server hostname or IP address and the remote path will be provided. First, the local directory we want to upload will be specified which can be a relative path or absolute path. Like download operation, in order to upload a specified directory and all its content to the remote system, the recursive option should be provided which is the option -r.

The scp command can be also used to upload the local directory to the remote system. $ scp -r :/home/ismail/backup ~ Upload Directory (Recursively) The sign ~ is used to specify the current user home directory. Īlternatively, we can download the specified remote directory or folder to the current user home directory. In the following example, we set the local download directory as the current working directory. is used to specify the current working directory. We can also download the remote directory or folder to the current working directory. In the following example, we will download the remote directory into the local path /mnt/drive. But we can also specify the local path or directory we want to download remote files. $ scp -r :/home/ismail/backupīy default, the remote directory downloaded into the current working directory. We can also specify the username explicitly which can be different then the current user. In the following example, we will download the remote directory /home/ahmet/backup to the current working directory by using the current username. Recursive means downloading everything inside the directory and its contents. In order to download a complete directory, the -r option should be specified which will download the remote directory recursively. By default, scp downloads a single file or folder which is specified.

The most popular operation with scp command is downloading a directory from the remote system to the local system. So in order to use scp command to copy a directory, SSH should be installed to copy the directory. The scp command is integrated with the SSH command and subsystem. The scp command can download or upload directories to or from a remote system. Linux provides the scp command in order to copy files and folders in a secure way.