Network Copy with scp

Sometimes you want copy something over the network, but don't need all features of something like rsync.

Here, we use scp to copy a file from a remote host to our local machine:

scp <username>@<host>:/path/to/file /path/to/dest

scp uses ssh, and so allows the user to specify port and other options (almost) like ssh does.  To set port for instance, add -P port_num.