Scp

Considering two system: System A and System B. You are logged inside one of them. Consider this rule for copying file(s) between ssh

scp <source> <destination>

The system you are NOT logged into will prepend username@system_name: to the absolute path

So If you want to copy some files System B ⇒ System A while you are logged in System B, you have to prepend in the <destination> parameter

thus resulting in a command like this scp /path/to/file username@system_name:/path/to/destination

Of course, if you want to copy an entire folder, just use the -r flag scp -r /path/to/folder username@system_name:/path/to/destination

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