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It's based on the SSH protocol used with it. A client can use an SCP to upload files to a remote server safely, download files, or even transfer files via SSH across remote servers.
To transfer files between 2 Windows servers, the traditional way is to use FTP desktop app as a middle-man. You need to download Filezilla or other FTP desktop tool, configure and use it to upload or download files between two remote servers.
To copy the files you will need to first invoke the SCP, followed by the remote username@IP address, path to file. If you do not specify the path, it is assumed as default in this case which will be the user's home directory, this will be followed the path where the file will be stored locally.
Methods for how to disconnect from SSH session The first way to disconnect from an SSH session is with the exit command. Issue this command on the remote terminal that you are currently logged in to. The second way to disconnect from an SSH session is with the logout command.
You need to scp something somewhere. You have scp ./styles/, so you're saying secure copy ./styles/, but not where to copy it to.
Generally, if you want to download, it will go:
# download: remote -> local
scp user@remote_host:remote_file local_file
where local_file might actually be a directory to put the file you're copying in. To upload, it's the opposite:
# upload: local -> remote
scp local_file user@remote_host:remote_file
If you want to copy a whole directory, you will need -r. Think of scp as like cp, except you can specify a file with user@remote_host:file as well as just local files.
Edit: As noted in a comment, if the usernames on the local and remote hosts are the same, then the user can be omitted when specifying a remote file.
If copying to/from your desktop machine, use WinSCP, or if on Linux, Nautilus supports SCP via the Connect To Server option.
scp can only copy files to a machine running sshd, hence you need to run the client software on the remote machine from the one you are running scp on.
If copying on the command line, use:
# copy from local machine to remote machine
scp localfile user@host:/path/to/whereyouwant/thefile
or
# copy from remote machine to local machine
scp user@host:/path/to/remotefile localfile
You need to specify both source and destination, and if you want to copy directories you should look at the -r option.
So to recursively copy /home/user/whatever from remote server to your current directory:
scp -pr user@remoteserver:whatever .
No, you still need to scp [from] [to] whichever way you're copying
The difference is, you need to scp -p server:serverpath localpath
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