How to download a file from a remote Linux server via SCP in Windows using Cmder

If you’re working on Windows and you need to grab a file from a remote Linux server over SSH, make sure you use Cmder.

Once you have Cmder extracted, you can use the Linux command line SCP directly from Windows:

scp -i %CMDER_ROOT%\config\.ssh\id_ed25519 user@example.com:/remote/path/to/filename.tar.gz %USERPROFILE%\Downloads

You can use this shortcut if you’ve already setup your SSH agent.

scp user@example.com:/remote/path/to/filename.tar.gz %USERPROFILE%\Downloads

There is unexplained nuance in the setup and config of your SSH keys, in Cmder, that I haven’t gone into here – maybe later if I get time…

For later explanation, but relevant

https://gist.github.com/lukescammell/743bd91cf2da0ed1d2cd699a2fdc3698

Source
  1. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9427553/how-to-download-a-file-from-server-using-ssh

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