How to copy file from a Vagrant machine to localhost

Question

I want to copy a local file from a Vagrant machine to my localhost, but I am getting an error message:

ssh: connect to host 127.0.0.1

Answer 1

Another option is cat the files to something local:

vagrant ssh -c "sudo cat /home/vagrant/devstack/local.conf" > local.conf

This should also work for files that require root permissions (something the vagrant SCP plugin doesn't seem to support).