cheatsheets/scp.md

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---
title: scp
category: CLI
updated: 2018-12-25
authors:
- github: vastpeng
---
### Usage
{: .-prime}
```bash
scp <options> source_path destination_path
```
### Conditions
```bash
-r # transfer directory
-v # see the transfer details
-C # copy files with compression
-l 800 # limit bandwidth with 800
-p # preserving the original attributes of the copied files
-P # connection port
-q # hidden the output
```
### Commands
```bash
$ scp file user@host:/path/to/file # copying a file to the remote system using scp command
$ scp user@host:/path/to/file /local/path/to/file # copying a file from the remote system using scp command
```
```bash
$ scp file1 file2 user@host:/path/to/directory # copying multiple files using scp command
$ scp -r /path/to/directory user@host:/path/to/directory # Copying an entire directory with scp command
```