scp Command
To download a file from an Ubuntu server to a Mac, you can use the scp
(secure copy) command. The scp
command uses the SSH protocol for copying files between a local and a remote machine or between two remote machines.
Follow these steps to download a file from an Ubuntu server to your Mac:
Open the Terminal app on your Mac.
Use the
scp
command to download the file. Replace the placeholders in the following command with your actual information:
scp -i /path/to/your/key.pem ubuntu@your_server_ip:/path/to/remote/file /path/to/local/destination
For example, let’s say you have a file named example.txt
on the Ubuntu server located at /home/ubuntu/example.txt
, and you want to download it to the Downloads
folder on your Mac. Your command would look like this:
scp -i /path/to/your/key.pem ubuntu@your_server_ip:/home/ubuntu/example.txt /Users/your_username/Downloads/
- After running the command, the file should be downloaded to the specified destination folder on your Mac.
Make sure to replace /path/to/your/key.pem
with the actual path to your .pem
file, ubuntu@your_server_ip
with your server’s username and IP address, /path/to/remote/file
with the remote file path on the Ubuntu server, and /path/to/local/destination
with the destination folder on your Mac.