copy from a remote machine to my machine: scp user@192.168.1.100:/home/remote_user/Desktop/file.txt /home/me/Desktop/file.txt copy from my machine to a remote machine: scp /home/me/Desktop/file.txt user@192.168.1.100:/home/remote_user/Desktop/file.txt copy all file*.txt from a remote machine to my machine (file01.txt, file02.txt, etc.; note the quotation marks: scp "user@192.168.1.100:/home/remote_user/Desktop/file*.txt" /home/me/Desktop/file.txt copy a directory from a remote machien to my machine: scp -r user@192.168.1.100:/home/remote_user/Desktop/files /home/me/Desktop/.