Transfer file from remote machine to local machine

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2017-07-17 at 12:10 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> I tend to use rsync instead of scp but otherwise I agree entirely.

rsync requires another program installed at the other end, scp doesn't.
It also has a somewhat more complicated invocation than scp. But it can
do partial copies and recover, so especially for large files or large
numbers of files, rsync is definitely the way to go, if supported at
the remote end.

Regards, K.

-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Karl Auer (kauer at biplane.com.au)
http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer
http://twitter.com/kauer389

GPG fingerprint: A52E F6B9 708B 51C4 85E6 1634 0571 ADF9 3C1C 6A3A
Old fingerprint: E00D 64ED 9C6A 8605 21E0 0ED0 EE64 2BEE CBCB C38B