Question

Hi so i was doing some research in the library so i could use some pictures later on my Desktop computer in my room. I have space on my Lab account which i usually SSH into, and i was wondering if URL’s can be directly transferred over to a remote machine and saved on the hard disk.

I was thinking something like this:

scp http://click.si.edu/images/truncatedurl.jpg /home3/etc.../filename.jpg

is this possible?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can use wget and scp together as such:

wget http://click.si.edu/images/truncatedurl.jpg -O file.jpg && scp file.jpg login@server:/home3/etc.../filename.jpg

The -O option allows you to name the output file and then you know which one you want to upload to your school’s server.