---
title: "i need a file off my server but i don't want to set up ftp"
date: 2020-01-11T05:11:00+01:00
draft: false
snippet_types: ["scp"]
---

```shell
$ scp -i ~/.ssh/privkey travis@199.199.19.199:/home/travis/example.txt ./
```

Yeah sometimes you just need to move files around. Any server you have ssh access to you can use
that same key to send files over ssh.

source:

[man page](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/scp.1.html)