How to copy entire folder from Amazon EC2 Linux instance to local Linux machine?

scp -i {key path} -r [email protected]:{remote path} {local path}

another way to do it is

scp -i "insert key file here" -r "insert ec2 instance here" "your local directory"

One mistake I made was scp -ir. The key has to be after the -i, and the -r after that.

scp -i amazon.pem -r ec2-user@ec2-##-##-##:/source/dir /destination/dir

Call scp from client machine with recursive option:

scp -r user@remote:src_directory dst_directory

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