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I m trying to download a file but can't seem to get it right. 

scp root@ipaddress:oo_db_bck_2_aug.sql /home

If I try to set the path to /home/username/Desktop the username folder doesn't exist. Just leaving a / showed activity but I can't find the file.

oo_db_bck_2_aug.sql                                 100%  189KB 189.0KB/s   00:00

I know it's a bit dumb ... but how do I set the path to my Desktop. I can access my desktop like so: /home/username/Desktop just not when using scp

Ciprian
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To scp the oo_db_bck_2_aug.sql file to the user folder ~

scp root@ipaddress:/path/to/oo_db_bck_2_aug.sql ~

If you don't know the absolute path to oo_db_bck_2_aug.sql, just ssh to that ip address and run

readlink -f oo_db_bck_2_aug.sql
Sophia Feng
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You may need to put an absolute path for the file on the remote host like so:

root@ipaddress:/path/to/file
D34DM347
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