Question
Is there a command to move a file from my droplet to local?
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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Hi @jouo,
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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