SSH commands

To connect from your local machine:

ssh -l username ipaddresss

To copy a file to a directory on a remote system:

scp filename username@host:path

filename - the name of the file to be uploaded to the remote system,

username - the name of user account to be used to log into the remote system,
host - the real IP address or hostname of the system,

path - the directory into which the file should be copied.

To copy from the remote system to the local system:

scp username@ehost:path/filename

source: http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Configuring_Ubuntu_Linux_Remote_Access_using_SSH