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I’ve had the need to transfer a file I had on a server.
I was connected through SSH and I didn’t want to setup the SFTP connection (and I didn’t know if the SFTP connection was allowed), so I opened another terminal window and used the command scp.
Here’s the syntax:
scp -i ~/.ssh/yourkey USER@SERVER:/path-to-file/on/server.txt ./Swap USER and SERVER with your server details, and also /path-to-file/on/server.txt with the path of the file. And use your SSH key path.
This downloads the file to your current directory (because of the ./ at the end). You can change it to any folder on your computer.