FTP was the popular protocol for file transfer but short of using FTPS, it doesn't provide the security required these days. Here's how to use Secure Copy (SCP) for file transfer. Secure copy, or SCP, ...
When I want to transfer files between computers on the same network, most of the time, I use the scp command. But when I want something a bit simpler to use, I turn to a very handy command-line tool ...