Overview

Anyone who administers Linux machines likely knows secure shell. Without this tool, administering those servers remotely would be quite challenging. It would also become harder to move files back and forth, at least with a modicum of security. That’s where secure copy comes into play. With the SCP command, you can copy files to and from a remote Linux server through an encrypted SSH tunnel.

SSH keys

Command

scp -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub FILENAME USER@SERVER:/home/USER/FILENAME
scp -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub USER@SERVER:/home/USER/FILENAME /home/USER/FILENAME

ssh -i BioModels-OpenSSH-Internal.pem ec2-user@3.142.90.222

Voila!

References

[1] https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-use-secure-copy-with-ssh-key-authentication/

[2] https://docs.climb.ac.uk/reference/scp/