scp -r [email protected]:/path/to/foo /home/user/Desktop/
By not including the trailing ‘/’ at the end of foo, you will copy the directory itself (including contents), rather than only the contents of the directory.
From man scp (See online manual)
-r Recursively copy entire directories
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