Transfer file from remote machine to local machine

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Mon Jul 17 11:10:38 UTC 2017


On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 08:41:59PM +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Sun, 2017-07-16 at 18:45 +0200, Xen wrote:
> > What SSH really misses is a way to "get" a file where you are.
> 
> Isn't scp exactly that? If you have ssh access to  system, you have scp
> access to it (modulo file permissions at each end of course).
> 
> Having that built into ssh itself would IMHO break the model of "do one
> thing well".
> 
I tend to use rsync instead of scp but otherwise I agree entirely.

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Chris Green




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