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...recently pointed out to me that it would be helpful for the scp man page to include an EXAMPLES section with a couple of common use cases. Not a particularly big deal for me, but it's a trivial enough thing to add, e.g. .Sh EXAMPLES .Pp To copy a local file to a remote server: .Pp .Dl Li scp my_local_file.txt me at example.com:remote_name.txt .Pp To copy a remote file to the current directory: .Pp .Dl Li scp me at example.com:uploaded_files/remote_filename.txt . .Pp To copy a directory full of files to a remote server: .Pp .Dl Li scp -r local_directory me at example.com:uploaded_files/ -- Configur...