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Asked: 2020-05-24 13:48:11 +0800 CST 2020-05-24 13:48:11 +0800 CST

Download folder with SSH

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I have access via SSH console to a folder in an AWS service, how can I download an entire folder to my local PC?

I've tried something like ~$ wget filename

and it doesn't work... what it does is try to find "http://filename", that is, it tries to find it in the global network and the file or folder to download in this case is locally on the server

Both answers.. in the end a local friend pointed out to me that I could use the same IDE I use to develop "PHP Storm" to set up this download and from there - everything was very easy... Thanks to Marco the first thing I did was to compact the entire folder to make it easier to have everything in one file and then taking Abraham Guerrero's suggestion of using an SFTP connection. Thanks friends !!!

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3 Answers

  1. Withscp

    Assuming your folder is on /home/tu_usuario/carpeta1the remote computer.

    1. Inside your instance, enter one level earlier withcd /home/tu_usuario/

    2. Create a file .tar.gzfrom that folder withtar czf carpeta1.tar.gz carpeta1

    3. Log out of your session sshon that EC2 instance.

    4. Copy the file tar.gzto your local machine with

      scp usuario_de_la_instancia@ip_de_instancia:/home/tu_usuario/carpeta1.tar.gz .

      Where the dot " ." indicates the current directory. After this you will have the file carpeta1.tar.gzin your current directory.

    5. unzip withtar xf carpeta1.tar.gz

    You can do it without the file tarwith the parameter -r, if you don't care about compression, for example.

    scp -r usuario_remoto@ip_de_instancia:/home/tu_usuario/carpeta1 .

    Through the "sftp"

    Download some sftp client and configure it with the path, ip, password or private key of the EC2 instance. Even editors like Atom or Sublime Text have packages that allow you to use sftp for file transfer.

    with the customer ofssh

    A quick way to do it and in one line is, in short, on the remote computer go to the folder level and then compress it, send the compressed to stdout and that stdout receive it on the local computer with a decompression. All in one line.

    Example.

    Assuming that the folder you want is located in /tmpand is called carpeta1, you can apply any of these options.

    ssh usuario_remoto@ip_de_instancia 'cd /tmp/; tar cz carpeta1' | tar xz  # Si deseas compresión

    EITHER

    ssh usuario_remoto@ip_de_instancia 'cd /tmp/; tar c carpeta1' | tar x  # Si no te importa la compresión.

    And, inside the path where you have run that command you will find the folder called "folder1" unzipped.

    Withrsync

    rsync -avzh usuario_remoto@ip_de_instancia:/home/tu_usuario/carpeta1 .

    The parameters -v, and -hare to make the process verbose, -awhich is in file mode and -zindicates that the file will be compressed during the transfer.

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  2. Best Answer

    Hello, I suggest you install an ftp client on your computer, I recommend FileZilla, but when configuring your connection you will select the SFTP protocol to be able to use SSH enter image description here

    if you do it from a fast connection fill the data and use port 22

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  3. Use -r to make it recursive. For example:

    scp -r usuario@host:/la/ruta/directorio /ruta/destino/local/

    Or in your case if you want it to be copied into the directory where you are positioned with ./

    scp -r usuario@host:/la/ruta/directorio ./

    Cheers!

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