Download file from remote to local machine ssh

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Alex Alex Please do not suggest people to use AutoAddPolicy , without explaining the consequences! You are losing protection against Man-in-the-middle attacks! Also, is you want to download as per question title , you want get , not put. Unfortunately in real life most administrators do not provide the host key fingerprint and they can be subject to change hardware upgrades, etc.

It makes storing host keys a maintenance overhead, especially when deploying Dockerised solutions. Of course It all depends on the risk of a potential man in the middle attack and there are scenarios where you absolutely do want to verify host keys.

Just modified the destination path to include the file name as well. Try to change. Martin Prikryl k 46 46 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Paran Paran 1 2 2 bronze badges. You cannot use os. SFTP path always uses forward slashes , while os.

Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. The problem is i want to have the 2nd remote system forward not download that file to a 3rd remote session. Finally, if there are multiple files with similar naming patterns such as file extensions, wildcards work well:.

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Subscribe to our newsletter! Thank you! You have successfully joined our subscriber list. Steve says:. February 20, at pm. An SSH session is like a portal into another machine. Just drag and drop! No text commands, no authentication, none of that. However, sometimes you will need to download a file from SSH to your local desktop, such as if you are using one of our Linux VPS servers. The two environments are too far apart. First, we have a file on the remote server called filetodownload. This will give you the folder name, like this:.

Replace the sections in bold with the information you gathered in step 1. For example, the command used for this example is:. Open up a command line in Windows.