Thread: What's the easiest way to copy files from a remote machine?

like, reverse of scp. sending files remote machines easy possibly be, find myself wanting file on remote machine copied local machine.

assuming local machine in question not have ability accept remote connections (in other words, can't ssh remote machine , scp local), can do? know there roundabout ways using woof (a script creates temporary webserver allowing download file once), wouldn't work if remote machine behind firewall allowing ssh connections in.

if use scp, bi-directional

copy file server :

scp file user@server:/home/user/file

copy file server ;

scp user@server:/home/user/file ./file

many alternates scp: rsync, ftp, http, samba, nfs ...

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