Download files from putty

As you can see, you first need to confirm the connection using the RSA fingerprint of the remote server.

Replace [UserName] with your own Windows username. Each RSA fingerprint is added on a new line. This allows you to clear them easily by deleting an entire line at once if you ever need to remove an entry. Navigate to the location you specified in your SCP command and the file should be visible. SCP is the most direct way to transfer files from remote servers to local systems.

It makes use of the same SSH protocols, so the connection is encrypted all the way through, making it immune to man-in-the-middle attacks. Hopefully, this tutorial will help you use it in an efficient, and easy manner. If this tutorial helped you move files from your remote server to your local machine, maybe consider sharing this knowledge with your friends by using our share shortcuts. Viewed 60k times. Improve this question. Peter Mortensen Tom Tom 4 4 gold badges 10 10 silver badges 23 23 bronze badges.

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I have upvoted it for now. More than anything I need commandline though. You could use it like this: pscp -pw password username remote.

Community Bot 1. Paul Paul This appears to be an ideal solution. I will leave the quesion open for some time to receive more answers. But I suspect I will be marking this as the answer. Unlike PSCP, where if you don't specify a name the file will be saved with the original name, with PSFTP if you don't specify a name for the file the get command might not work.

You have the choice whether to use the same name for the target file or to use a different one, but in both cases the content of the file will be the same as that of the source file. Since with PSFTP you can browse and change the working directory on your account cd command , you don't have to type the full path to the file on your account that you want to download.

Using the above example, if you use the cd command e. The same is true for the current working directory on your local computer. In this case you don't even have to type the name of the target file when you download it to the current working directory on your computer.

You can just use get examplefile. To download a directory with all its content including subdirectories , you have to add, as with PSCP, the option -r :. The above command will download a directory called newfolder from the current directory on your account to the D drive on your local computer. If you don't specify a name for the directory on you local drive e. So the contents of newfolder will be scattered on your D drive.

This, as with files, is the case when the current working directory on your local computer is not your local D drive. If the working directory on your local computer is the D drive, you can just use get -r newfolder. This will download not only the contents but also the folder itself to the working directory on your computer D drive in this example.

Again, as with files, if you want to you can specify a different name for the target directory e. With the command mget you can download multiple files at the same time. For example, mget examplefile1. With the -r option you can use mget to download multiple directories e.

Basically the same rules apply to this command as the ones for get. Only in this case first you specify the file and path on your local computer and then on your account:. The above command will upload a file called examplefile. Similarly to the get command, if you are uploading a file to a directory that's not your current working directory you have to specify not only the path on your account but also the name with which the file will be saved.