SCP means Secure Copy Protocol, a network protocol that copies data from one remote place to another through a secure connection. Let's copy a file from one place to another.
To scp a file over, you must include a source and a destination.
scp [source] [destination]
For the source, you type a file path to the file you want to copy.
For the destination, you type the username and host of the remote device to connect to.
Then, you type the file path to the destination you want your file to be in.
scp /path/to/file username@host:/path/to/destination
You can use a port number too.
scp -P 80 /path/to/file username@host:/path/to/destination
To learn more, you can always man scp for more details.
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