Error copying folder using scp

Question

I want to copy a folder from remote server. When I use this command to copy just a single file>

scp -P 11096 user@server:FullPathToFile WhereToSave

it works well, but when I use -r to copy the folder as:

scp -r 11096 user@server:FullPathToFile WhereToSave

it gives me an error:

cp: cannot stat '11096': No such file or directory

Any idea? Thanks for help!

Answer 1

Try this

scp -r -P 11096 user@server:FullPathToFile WhereToSave