SCP from Remote Server to Windows Local Machine

Question

I would like to copy files from a remote Unix machine to a local Windows machine. The remote machine requires a secure connection, and therefore the default Windows tools, such as FTP, don't work. I can run ssh on the local machine to log into the remote machine, but I am not able to run anything to copy the remote files to the local machine, since the local machine doesn't have scp. Is there a way to copy them while sshed into the remote machine? For example, by setting up a pipe to receive the contents of the remote file and save it onto the local machine.

Answer 1

WinSCP is a graphical file transfer utility for Windows that supports both scp and (by default) sftp, in addition to other file transfer protocols.

Answer 2

If you install PuTTY that includes a command-line pscp utility, which is PuTTY's equivalent of scp. Documentation on how to use pscp is here.

Answer 3

If you have python on your windows machine, you can try this:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ssh4py

If you do not have python, simpler approach is to install putty Scp

https://it.cornell.edu/managed-servers/transfer-files-using-putty