Copy file from remote UNIX terminal to local system

Question

I use putty on Vista to connect to remote UNIX shell. But I want to copy files from that remote server to my local Vista system. How to do that??

Answer 1

WinSCP should do the trick. You're not going to be able to do it form putty.

Answer 2

Use PSCP; PuTTY Secure Copy. If you can connect via SSH there is PuTTY and then 99 times out of 100 if you can SSH you can also SCP(Secure Copy).

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Answer 3

If you're using PuTTY and connecting via SSH check if you have pscp installed with PuTTY (or download it from the PuTTY site). Then you can just do:

pscp user@host:/path/to/file .

Answer 4

I know it's been a while since this was asked, but I just happened to pull this off fairly easily with a couple utilities without an extra SCP/SFTP session.

• Set up port forwarding in your SSH session for some remote port portA to forward to some local port portB.

• Run netcat (or an equivalent such as ncat) on your local machine, making it listen to portB and output to a file:

  nc -l -p portB > output_file
  

• Run netcat (or, again, an equivalent such as ncat) on the remote host, piping in data however you wish to localhost:portA.

  nc localhost portA -q 1 < my_file
  # or maybe, say, mysqldump --xml ... ... | nc localhost portA -q 1
  

• The netcats will both exit when the file has been completely received.

You can of course add a gzip or a pv inbetween. Do remember the connection only accepts one file at a time -- creative use of tar might help.

Answer 5

Cygwin + scp/ftp?

Answer 6

PuTTY comes with a program called PSFTP, which is the PuTTY equivalent of SFTP. This is superior to any of the scp-based solutions.