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Using secure copy command?

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3hounds

3hounds

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Oct 20, 2003
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I need to retrieve some log files off my remote server and I have a SSH port I can access. Can I use SCP command to retrieve them? Also, is the format source.file/destination.file or destination.file/source.file
 
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I would try:
Code: 
scp user@remotehost:file localfile
Anyway: man scp

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