ssh and scp

Sending a single or a few files

scp /path/to/src/file user@server:/path/to/destination

Sending lots of files at once[1]

tar -C /path/to/src/dir -jcf - ./ | ssh user@server 'tar -C /path/to/dest/dir -jxf -'

• For tar, the flags are: j for filtering/compressing using the bzip2 algorithm, c for creating a new archive, and f is for where it should send the new contents of the tar file; the hyphen signifies the contents of the new tar file should be piped.
• For the ssh section, the other tar flag is x for extract the archive.

References

1. https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/10037

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