I use terminal shellI and I’m finding it difficult to copy a file from my school remote server to my local machine. I used this command but it’s giving an error massage. rsync -avx eve.kean.edu:/tmp/directory/hosts. Please I need help so I could use this file to start my final project. The file name is hosts. And my professor copied it in /tmp/directory This is my school remote name: eve.kean.edu My User Name is: nwodo@evebelow is what I’m getting with the command. Solution The syntax is like: scp username@source:/file/location username@destination:/storage/location The the command in your is case is like scp eve.kean.edu:/tmp/directory/hosts nwodo@eve:/where/to/copy.