It has been set to my routine task to copy folder/files from my local host or a remote linux server to another server or vise versa. scp linux command is used for this specific need.
The general command is:

scp YOUR_LOCAL_FILE USERNAME@YOUR_SERVER:~

The above command will copy a file from your local machine to a remote server. If you want to copy a folder to a remote machine user -r to recursively copy the whole folder into the remote.

You can also copy from your remote server to your local machine by changing the order in scp as below:

scp USERNAME@YOUR_SERVER:~/YOUR_REMOTE_FILE .

The above command will copy the remote file called YOUR_REMOTE_FILE from the home directory to your current path (.). Instead of dot you can provide your full path.

NOTE: use man scp and see tons of flags to master this command.

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