Question

How would you copy all files from a remote directory into your LOCAL home folder.

Answer 1

Answer: Using secure copy 'SCP' we can copy all files from a remote directory into local folder. It also replaces existing files.

Explanation:

This is illustrated as follows:

scp -r [email protected]:/path/to/server/source/folder/  .

-r is recursively copy all files

username is your username in your system

IP, here you cab specify the IP or type the website such as www.google.com

Then we specify the path, complete path

"." dot here refers the current directory. To copy the contents in the current directory.