On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 01:02:10AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 22 March 2010 00:57, Selçuk Mıynat <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 00:52, Dotan Cohen <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I am managing a small embedded device that I SSH into over the LAN. To
> >> run commands, I use KDE Konsole, and to transfer files I use Konqueror
> >> and SFTP. I understand that SFTP also runs over SSH, so is there a way
> >> to send files in Konsole as well? I am familiar with the FTP commands
> >> such as cd, lcd, put, and get. Are there equivalent commands for SSH
> >> terminal connections?
> >
> > Are you looking for scp?
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_copy
> > http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/documents/4/4801/
> >
>
> No, scp is for sending files to a remote machine that the user has yet
> to connect to:
> localhost$ scp /path/to/file.txt u...@remotemachine /remote/path/
(wrong syntax: scp /path/to/file.txt u...@remotemachine:/remote/path/ )
While this is not what you asked for, I still prefer scp.
scp can be made much more convinient to use, once you allow tab
completion of remote file names.
scp file.txt u...@remotemachine:/rem<tab>
This works if you cna login without a password to u...@remotemachine .
There are several ways to do that:
1. Passphrase-less key
2. key + ssh-agent
I suppose people in this list are familiar with the above two. The
down-sides with those two are:
1. They still require estabilishng an extra SSH connection per pressing
of <tab>.
2. They may require extra setup on remoteMachine.
Luckily openssh provides a better alternative. In my .ssh/config I have:
Host *
ControlMaster = auto
ControlPath = ~/.ssh/socket/control_%h__%p__%r__%l
This means that whenever I connect to a new host, ssh creates a socket
that allows multiplexing new ssh connections on the already-established
SSH connection. After-all the SSH protocol was designed to support
multiple streams (for e.g. port forwarding).
With this set, scp works nice and fast to a remote host. BTW: it seems
that in squeeze rsync now has the same sort of completion.
As usual, I rely on the shell's history to provide me some sort of
context. I usually also copy pathes from a remote shell window on the
target system.
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