How to upload local file to server through Linux terminal

To add on to Jake’s answer, you could specify a location—instead of just .—to copy to by adding the path at the end of the URL as:

scp /path/to/file username@servername/ip:/destination/folder/

from : https://superuser.com/questions/850740/how-to-upload-local-file-to-server-through-linux-terminal