{"id":5294,"date":"2026-06-14T09:45:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T09:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=5294"},"modified":"2026-06-14T09:45:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T09:45:37","slug":"scp-from-remote-host-to-local-directory-including-all-files-and-directories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=5294","title":{"rendered":"SCP from Remote Host to Local Directory (including all Files and Directories)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To SCP from a remote host, to a local directory, including all files and directories (recursively) you can use the following command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>scp -r -i &lt;path to key> &lt;username>@&lt;remotehost>:~\/* .<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the above we&#8217;re copying all files from the user&#8217;s home directory to the (current) local directory. So doing this as a real world example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>scp -r i c:\\users\\tristan\\.ssh\\tristan.key tristan@192.168.1.10:~\/* .<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To SCP from a remote host, to a local directory, including all files and directories (recursively) you can use the following command: In the above we&#8217;re copying all files from the user&#8217;s home directory to the (current) local directory. So doing this as a real world example:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5295,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294\/revisions\/5295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}