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I’ve been using GitHub to move files between my droplet and my computer, which works fine.

But I was wondering if there’s a way through command line to move files from the droplet to my local machine.

Thank you

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KDSys February 16, 2020

You can use either rsync or scp to move files from one place to another.

Let’s use scp for this example as it’s simpler(in this case). You’ll need to use it like so

scp root@YourDropletIp:/path/to/your/file/file.txt /local/path/where/it/should/be/saved

If you have any custom SSH port on your droplet, you can use it like so

scp -P 2222 root@YourDropletIp:/path/to/your/file/file.txt /local/path/where/it/should/be/saved

And if you wish to copy files recursively, you can do it by executing the command as

scp -r root@YourDropletIp:/path/to/your/file/file.txt /local/path/where/it/should/be/saved

Regards,
KDSys

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jouo February 16, 2020

Thank you very much, bookmarked this :)
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jouo February 16, 2020

Thank you very much, bookmarked this :)
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Is there a command to move a file from my droplet to local?