linux - How can I copy files with SSH?

I am trying to copy a file from my other computer, to another computer. (both running Ubuntu 9.10)

So, I've ssh'ed into the other computer; I cd to the directory; and I entered cp File.zip /home/me/Desktop as file.zip is located in the directory I just used cd with.

Now, it gives me the following error message:

cannot create regular file '/home/me/Desktop': no such file or directory

What do I have to do?

Answer

This isn't really programming related, but you can use scp to do this.

scp file.zip remote-box-name:/path/to/destination/file.zip

If your username is different on the remote box, you will need to prefix it:

scp file.zip yourusername@remotebox:/path/to/destination/file.zip

And to retrieve a file you could do this:

scp remotebox:/path/to/destination/file.zip file.zip