# SCP as root and chown _A simple function to scp from source/dest and chown back to user if destination is local_ ```bash= scp_root() { if [ "$#" -ne 2 ]; then echo "Usage: scp_root <source> <dest>" return 1 fi local source="$1" local dest="$2" sudo scp "$source" "$dest" if [[ "$dest" != *:* ]]; then sudo chown myuser:"myuser group" "$dest" fi } ```