[TriLUG] Access to remote linux files and folders...

[Tanner Lovelace]

On 1/19/07, Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> If you're trying to ssh to a remote box to find a file, and then you're
> using scp to copy that file, you can combine these two steps using "fish".
>
> On the local machine, open a konqueror browser window and type in the
> url "fish://user@remote.whatever.com".  It will open a file browser that
> uses SSH to browse and transfer files.  It's a handy little utility.
>
> As far as I know, it's only supported by konqueror.

I believe lftp supports it too, if you need a command line client.  Of course,
rsync supports ssh as a transport too and only copies the parts of the file
that are different.  Very useful for backing up data that doesn't change much.

Cheers,
Tanner

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