SCP on FreeBSD

[Poontos]

Can someone please give me an example on how to grab a file via scp from a remote host?

I have tried:

scp userid@remote.host:/home/userid/filenam

And it does not work.

I know how to copy a file to a remote host, but the other way does not seem to be working anymore (I think it worked in the past)

Thanks!

 

[n0cmonkey]

scp userid@remote.host:/home/userid/filenam /where/you/want/the/file/
ie:
scp n0c@ghetto:/home/n0c/newtear.c .

 

[Poontos]

Thanks n0c! I guess I just missed specifying the destination, even though I thought it was sort of like FTP. Do a lcd if you are not the dir you want the file to land.

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< Thanks n0c! I guess I just missed specifying the destination, even though I thought it was sort of like FTP. Do a lcd if you are not the dir you want the file to land. >>



Its more like cp than ftp