SCP from remote Linux system to Windows

Question

I'm on ssh accessing my user account at school. I'm trying to download a particular file from my linux account to my current windows file system that Im on right now. Can i use scp? If yes Id really appreciate if you could give an example of how to download a file from a remote server to windows

Answer 1

WinSCP has windows binding for the scp protocol. I haven't used it in a long time, but I recall it being easy to use.

http://winscp.net/eng/index.php

Answer 2

You won't find scp or ssh natively on Windows. But you can always download WinSCP and Putty, respectively if you find yourself in need of some *nix goodness on Windows.

Answer 3

Assuming you have scp installed on your Windows machine, you can use:

scp username@remotehost:~/path/to/remote/file ~/path/to/local/file

If you don't have scp installed, you can use Cygwin to install SCP for Windows.

Answer 4

Install cygwin. It has an ssh and scp client. You'll have to initiate the copy from windows, but it'll work.

Alternatively, it might be possible to install an ssh daemon with cygwin, but I've never explored that.