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Several times throughout the day, I may be running a test where I need to look through a log file on a remote server. I've gotten used to using my terminal to sftp into the remote server and pull the desired log file down to /tmp on my local machine. I was looking through the options today using man sftp in an attempt to figure out a way to run the following commands basically in a single line so that I don't have to type a command, press enter, type a command press enter, etc. (what I do now) sftp myuser@myserver --mypassword at prompt lcd /tmp get /dir/dir/dir/dir/file quit I found while looking through man sftp a reference to scp which I haven't used before. I feel it may be what I'm looking for, but I didn't see a way to specify where I wanted the securely copied file to go. Could someone provide me with a way to get /dir/file from a remote server and have it download to /tmp/file_plus-my-description ? I was hoping to be able to run an sftp or scp command similar to a regularUNIX copy like: scp myuser@myserver /dir/file /tmp/file_plus-my-description I'm using the built in Terminal in Mac OS X 10.8. Thanks.

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