Security News > 2023 > October > How to Use the Scp Command to Securely Send a File from Your Desktop to a Server

Learn how to use the scp command to transfer files securely with this step-by-step tutorial by expert Jack Wallen.

If you regularly have to copy files from your desktop to another desktop or server, you might not want to use less secure protocols such as FTP. Fortunately, Secure Shell includes a command that makes copying files to and from a remote machine not only secure but fairly easy.

The scp command does work with SSH key authentication, so if you have it enabled, you shouldn't have any problems with the command.

The command to copy that file to the server would be.

If you want to copy that file from the remote server to your Documents directory on your local machine, the command would be.

Thanks to the scp command, you can securely copy files to and from remote machines with ease.

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