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• wget – retrieves the contents of an Internet URL
• cp – copies directories or files located on any local file system
• scp – copies directories or files to/from a remote system
• rsync – copies directories or files on either local or remote systems

(Read more at about Copying files and directories)

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Well, you don't have a desktop at TACC to "Save as" to, so what to do with a link? The wget program knows how to access web URLs such as http, https and ftp.

Anchorwget yeast datawget yeast dataGet ready to run wget from the directory where you want to put the data.

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mkdir -p $SCRATCH/data/test1
cp $CORENGS/misc/small.fq  $SCRATCH/data/test1/
ls $SCRATCH/data/test1

# or..
cds
mkdir -p data/test1
cd data/test1
cp $CORENGS/misc/small.fq .

# or..
mkdir -p ~/scratch/data/test1   # use the symbolic link in your Home directory
cd ~/scratch/data/test1
cp $CORENGS/misc/small.fq  .
ls

Notice the different ways of referring to a directory (Read more about using Absolute or Relative pathname syntax.)

Now copy an entire directory to your Scratch area. The -r option says recursive.

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Copy from a remote computer - scp or rsync

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