Tzafrir Cohen schreef:
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.
Thanks, this is very neat ;)
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