How to download a file from EC2 instance to local computer

Question

I  have an instance of EC2. It has few files. And I tried to download those files from ec2 instance to my local Ubuntu 13.10.

For that i have used this command

scp -i /home/ritesh/.ssh/id_rsa2 apps@XXX.20.24.XXX:/home/apps/dev/comp-eng/arena-client/build/arena-client-7.1.0.zip

and the output i am getting is

usage: scp [-12346BCpqrv] [-c cipher] [-F ssh_config] [-i identity_file] [-l limit] [-o ssh_option] [-P port] [-S program] [[user@]host1:]file1 ... [[user@]host2:]file2

Am i using the correct forma?

Answer 1

You need to specify your download location. If its the current directory, you can just add a ..

scp -i /home/ritesh/.ssh/id_rsa2 apps@XXX.20.24.XXX:/home/apps/dev/comp-eng/arena-client/build/arena-client-7.1.0.zip .