Transfer files from Linux to Windows using pscp or some other tool

Question

Problem Statement- I want to copy some files from remote machine (linux) to my windows machine. I know I can do it using pscp.

I tried looking on the internet, I found several articles, but in those articles I was not able to understand and I was having lot of problems in copying the files from Linx box to Windows.

Can anyone provide me step by step method here, so that I can follow that to transfer files. That will be of great help to me.

I am connected to host cli.vip.host.com using putty and that is linux with username- rkost and password as- password. And I want to copy file a.txt from linux to windows.

Answer 1

1. Download PSCP from below link

   https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html

2. Run PSCP

3. Got to command prompt

4. Use the below code

   Copy single file

   pscp user@host:remote_path/file_name host_path\file_name
   
   eg: pscp [email protected]:/home/user2/a.txt c:\Desktop\a.txt
   

   Copy all files in a folder

   pscp user@host:remote_path/* host_path\ 
   
   eg: pscp [email protected]:/home/user2/* c:\Desktop\test\ 
   

   Copy all files & folders in a folder

   pscp -r user@host:remote_path/ host_path\
   
   eg: pscp -r [email protected]:/home/user2/ c:\Desktop\test\