There are plenty of tools for transferring files between two computers on the Linux command line, but the scp and rsync commands will cover almost any use case. Heres how and when to use them.

This is a step-by-step guide on how to compare the contents of local and remote files with the help of SSH. Watch our related video tutorial.

If you need to share or transfer files between Linux machines, you have plenty of options. Here are some you might not have considered.