
On a personal computer where you can install software, try any SFTP client. Use mget to download multiple files at once, for example, mget a* to download all files beginning with the lower-case letter, a. Using PuTTY commandline for downloading file through SSH Ask Question Asked 10 years, 2 months ago Modified 5 years, 11 months ago Viewed 73k times 5 I am investigating various options for writing a program that can automate download of files on a SSH server. Now, get a directory listing on the remote side. As an exercise, try these to get a feel for what is happening. To get a local directory listing, type !dir. Also note that local commands can be executed with !. One might use lpwd to print the local working directory. When you download a file, the file will be downloaded into the working directory. In the 'Password' field, type the password associated with the username you entered in the previous step. In the 'User name' field, enter your username for the host you specified. The meaning is "local change directory." This changes the working directory of the program. In the 'Host name' field, enter the hostname of the server to which you are connecting (for example, .edu or ). (Or, use its IP address if you don't have a hostname.)

psftp: no hostname specified use "open host.name" to connectĭo this using the same credentials that you use for SSH. When you first start this program, it might look as follows. Link below Download PuTTY: latest release (0.74) This page contains download links for the latest released version of PuTTY. Next, type the following command in the PuTTY terminal application to launch it. When you’re using Linux, it’s usually in /usr/bin.
PUTTY DOWNLOAD COPY DIRECTORY MAC OS
On Mac OS X, you can access it through the Applications folder. On Linux you'd normally do this by prefixing it with a backslash: \:, but I don't know how this should work on windows.

PuTTY files should be located in C:/Program Files (x86)/PuTTY. 1 SSH (and thus also scp) interpretes a colon as a separator between host and path on the host. You probably cannot install software on the university workstation, but you can probably download and execute Putty's psftp, which is "command-line secure file copy." To begin, you must first locate the PuTTY application on your computer. Using SCP with pscp is a good option, as given by sebasth.
