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Linux n00b

I don't know much Linux command line stuff. I rather suck at it, actually, and I'll be the first to admit it.

But I am great with the internets, and the internet knows everything. And if the internet knows when I am going to ovulate, it surely knows a thing or two about the command line. Which is great for me, since I know almost nothing about it.

However, I seem to have come to a communications problem between me and the internets. Apparently if I don't know what language to use when I ask my internet a question, all I get are blank stares and some porn.

As if boobies would distract anyone from learning.
As. If.

So I have a conundrum that I have no idea how to solve, and no idea how to phrase it for the internet to solve for me. I know a few of you who read this know Linux intimately like a lover, but since none of you are on IM, here is my plea for help.

I have a Linux box on my network that I connect to throuh SSH. Sure, I can brave the creepy crawly things in the basement and use the terminal directly, but I like the toys at my desk.

There is a file on this Linux computer that I need to transfer to the computer in my office. And the Linux computer doesn't have a floppy drive (I just checked, though expected little because computers always have floppy drives until you need one).

And I apparently cannot phrase a google search properly to have the internet tell me which command(s) I need to use. It keeps suggesting wget to download a file from the internet to my Linux computer, even though I keep yelling that is not what I want to do, Google.

And I feel so silly about the whole thing, because really.
I just need to transfer a file.
One wee (yet very very very important) file.
That's all.
How hard can that be?

Creating the file had to be done after hours once the rest of the staff had left, which means I am doing overtime in a stuffy, empty office on a Friday night.

A Friday night before I leave for vacation.

Anyone want to help a poor Linux-challenged lady out?