Usually I used scp to transfer files between my local system & VM.
Today, I had to transfer multiple files from my ~/.agents/skills/ directory. A copy of it was already on the local system, but multiple files were updated in the VM.
Instead of overwriting the full directory, I found rsync a much better command here because of its delta transfer. It will copy only the modified files.
Secure Copy Protocol (scp)
scp [options] <source> <destination>-r: recursively copy all files in a directory
Remote Synchronization (rsync)
rsync [options] <source> <destination>-a: archive. preserves permissions, timestamps, etc-v: verbose--progress: show progress
For example, we can sync directories between a remote location and local system like this:
rsync -av user@host:/remote/path/to/directory/ /local/path/to/directory/