Commonly used set of commands for SCP

SCP

Copy the file "foobar.txt" from a remote host to the local host
$ scp username@remotehost:foobar.txt /some/local/directory

Copy the file "foobar.txt" from the local host to a remote host
$ scp foobar.txt username@remotehost:/some/remote/directory

Copy the directory "foo" from the local host to a remote host's directory "bar"
$ scp -r foo username@remotehost:/some/remote/directory/bar

Copy the file "foobar.txt" from the local host to a remote host using port 2264
$ scp -P 2264 foobar.txt username@remotehost:/some/remote/directory