scp scp or secure copy is probably the easiest of all the methods, its is designed as a replacement for rcp, which was a quick copy of cp with network funcationability. scp syntax scp [-Cr] /some/file [ more … ] host.name:/destination/file -or- scp [-Cr] [[user@]host1:]file1 [ more … ] [[user@]host2:]file2 Before scp does any copying […]