Question

I have a file on a remote server that I can connect to via ssh. I would like to copy the file from the remote server at the path: ‘/home/example.txt’ to my computer’s desktop.

Should I be using wget, sftp, ftp, or simply rm?

Bonus points if you know a good resource for UNIX documentation, since google’s results were not great.

Answer 1

Use scp(1):

~$ scp user@host:/home/example.txt .