scp with port number specified

Question

I\'m trying to scp a file from a remote server to my local machine. Only port 80 is accessible.

I tried:

scp -p 80 username@www.myserver.com:/root/file.t         


        

Answer 1

You know what's cooler than -P? nothing

If you use this server more than a few times, setup/create a ~/.ssh/config file with an entry like:

Host www.myserver.com
    Port 80

or

Host myserver myserver80 short any.name.u.want yes_anything well-within-reason
    HostName www.myserver.com
    Port 80
    User username

Then you can use:

scp username@www.myserver.com:/root/file.txt .

or

scp short:/root/file.txt .

You can use anything on the "Host" line with ssh, scp, rsync, git & more

There are MANY configuration option that you can use in config files, see:

man ssh_config