Reverse SCP over SSH connection

This would be a lot easier with SFTP, which is an extension to SSH that supports more complex file operations than SCP. Virtually all modern Unix and Linux distributions support it. To use it, just run this command to connect to the server:

sftp server

Then you can use the ls and cd commands to browse around and find the file you're looking for. Once you've found it, use the get command to download it. For instance, to download file.txt in your current working directory on the server to your current working directory on your local machine, just run:

get file.txt

To download /home/pavpanchekha/textfiles/file.txt on the server to ~/textfiles/ on your local machine, instead run:

get /home/pavpanchekha/textfiles/file.txt ~/textfiles/

Conversely, you can also upload files in this manner. To upload file.txt from your local current working directory to the current working directory of the server, type:

put file.txt

You can also use full paths for each like you can with get:

put ~/textfiles/file.txt /home/pavpanchekha/textfiles/file.txt

For a full list of available SFTP commands, just run help at the sftp> prompt.