Followings are some of the useful commands when working with upload/download remote contents using ssh:
# copy remote folder and its content to current directory scp -r user@<ssh-host>:/home/sample . # copy remote folder and its content to local directory using SSH key file scp -i ~/.ssh/<ssh-keyfile> user@<ssh-host>:/home/sample . # upload local file to remote folder scp ./temp/file.txt user@remote.com:~/directory # upload local file to remote location using ssh key scp -i ~/.ssh/<ssh-keyfile> ./temp/file.txt user@remote.com:~/directory # upload local folder to remote folder scp -r ./temp user@remote.com:~/directory # upload local folder to remote location using ssh key scp -r -i ~/.ssh/<ssh-keyfile> ./temp user@remote.com:~/directory # upload local folder with current folder timestamp and preserve file permissions to remote server scp -rp /tmp/ user@<ssh-host>:/home # Mount remote directory as local directory sshfs name@server:/path/remote_folder /path/local_folder
Reference: Dennyzhang