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Darrel

Post subject: How to save file to desktop using Linux commands?

Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2014 1:20 am

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I am a beginner to Linux commands. I use SSH to connect to a Linux server. What command can I use to save a text file on the server to my desktop?

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Celauran

Post subject: Re: How to save file to desktop using Linux commands?

Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2014 7:40 am

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No SFTP access? scp might be easiest, then.

http://linux.die.net/man/1/scp

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Celauran

Post subject: Re: How to save file to desktop using Linux commands?

Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:03 am

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jeffreyappel wrote:

: cp [source file name] [destination file name]

No. cp won't copy across a network.

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Christopher

Post subject: Re: How to save file to desktop using Linux commands?

Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 10:13 am

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How big is the text file? If it is a one-time thing, you could cat it to the terminal and then copy it from the screen. Otherwise, sftp or scp or rsync.

If you want file manager access to files, you could use Samba to share a directory on the Linux machine so that the Windows machine could mount it from the network.

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