While all three of these Linux commands can be used to download files, if you want to know my preference, it's wget all the way (unless I need to add a layer of security, at which point I use scp).

There are plenty of tools for transferring files between two computers on the Linux command line, but the scp and rsync commands will cover almost any use case. Heres how and when to use them.

For Linux, Mac, and Windows (PowerShell) an sftp session or scp command to an HPC front-end host can be done easily from on-campus (main or VIMS) or off-campus through the bastion host.

Transferring Files With SSH in Ubuntu. Ubuntu includes a variety of utilities for connecting to secure shell servers. The standard "ssh" command connects to the remote SSH server and provides a ...

If you need to share or transfer files between Linux machines, you have plenty of options. Here are some you might not have considered.

Of course, you can also use the pscp command to copy files from a Unix system to your Windows box. As with scp, you simply reverse the order in which you specify the files: ...