Where does a file copy to when I scp it?

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Published on 2011-02-02T11:15:44Z Indexed on 2011/02/02 15:34 UTC
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Hi forum,

i have this file myfirst.txt located on a cluster of computers down the hall, i.e.:

myname@login1:~> ls
myfirst.txt

which i want to download to the home directory:

scp [email protected]:myfirst.txt .

to which i get:

myfirst.txt                                   100% 1828     1.8KB/s   00:00

now where (on my home computer) is this myfirst.txt file ? i can't find it. It's not visible when i click 'show hidden files' either.

Tia,

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