# Net::SCP download recursive

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-scp-download-recursive/166837>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 30, 2009, 12:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-scp-download-recursive/166837 "2009-04-30T00:15:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 12:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/net-scp-download-recursive/166837/1 "2009-04-30T00:15:36Z")

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The recursive documentation suggests that  
:recursive - the remote parameter refers to a remote directory, which  
should be downloaded to a new directory named local on the local  
machine.

So I copied “/pub/temp” to “C:\TEMP”

If temp had one file /pub/temp/file, the copy results in a file at C:  
\TEMP\temp\file, shouldn’t it have been C:\TEMP\file

This is what command line scp would have done.