SCP from remote network - finding address of local network

Question

I'm trying to copy data from a remote server (university) to my local machine via scp

I know the basic command

username1@source_host:directory1/filename1 username2@destination_host:directory2/filename2

But I don't know how to specify (i.e find) the path I need for my local machine... How can I find that?

Answer 1

If you want to scp file to your local machine, you don't need to specify path for the destination_host you have in your command.

Simply do

scp username1@source_host:directory1/filename1 /path/on/your/local/machine/

where /path/on/your/local/machine/ is actually on your local machine, for instance /home/user/Documents/.

See scp man for reference, or this tutorial.

Answer 2

Once you logged onto the remote server you can query how you got there, to use the information for scp.

scp filename localuser@$(echo $SSH_CONNECTION|awk '{print $1}'):Downloads