Copy File Using Scp
published: July 23, 2026
tags:
linux |
ssh |
scp |
reading time: 1 minutes
by @ibrathesheriff 
So you want to use ssh to copy a file from your local machine to remote?
Easy:
scp <local-file-to-copy> <USER:IP_ADDRRESS:/user>
For example, I was copying a SQL dump file so I ran:
scp usage-stats-21-07-2026.sql root:192.168.1.1