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smurray444

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jan 19, 2009
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0
Dear all,

I'm trying to copy (using scp, Unix) a file from a remote host to my local computer. The command that I've been trying is:

scp lpj_land_mask.nc glsjm@[ip address]:/Users/Steve/Desktop/

This however only seems to move the file from its original place on the remote host to another folder on the remote host.

How do I get it to actually appear on my own local computer?

Many thanks for any help,

Steve
 

reh

macrumors 6502a
Oct 24, 2003
639
1
Arkansas
The syntax for scp is scp source destination. So in your case you'd have something like this:
Code:
scp glsjm@[ip address]:lpj_land_mask.nc /Users/Steve/Desktop/
 
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