How to do SCP from remote to local

The scp command allows you to copy files over ssh connections. This is very useful if you want to transport files between computers. The scp command uses the ssh command to authenticate. Some times you are not able to do scp from host A to host B for example but you can do scp from B copying data from host A. The basic syntax is like this: When you are login HostA and you copy files to HostB 

scp file username@hostB:/path/../../
But what if this is not possible and you get some error or the server is on different network or what ever.. Well in this case we will need to copy from the remote HostA to the local HostB Copy remote file to localhost from localhost. 
scp user@RemoteHost:/path/file /path/new_location/on local server
You also can use the -r option(recursive/copy all files) and allso the *(wildcard).

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