Session 0: Transferring your files from cheyenne

If you want to save your files from cheyenne:

On your local machine (laptop/desktop), cd to a directory where you want to save your file.  For example, on a Mac

where $USER is your localhost user name.

On cheyenne, cd to the directory where your files are located, e.g.:

Now, from your local machine, enter the following:

where $USER is now your cheyenne username and what follows the colon after cheyenne.ucar.edu is the absolute path to your files on cheyenne.  Following that is a dot ('.') which represents your current directory on your local machine (you could also specify an absolute path to where you want to put the files.). You'll see:

Authenticate with your credentials.  Next, the files will be downloaded:

And the files should be in your local directory.  On your local machine, enter:

For more information, see the scp man page: