[CLUE-Tech] Problems with FTP over SSH

David Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Fri Sep 3 15:25:11 MDT 2004


Angelo Bertolli wrote:
[...]
> I love scp.  I don't know why scp isn't more popular... it's a lot 
> faster to type a single command line to copy stuff over securely than to 
> take so many steps with ftp programs.

Because you can't interactively navigate the remote directories with 
scp.  But if you like scp and you ever do the same copies periodically, 
take a look at rsync.  Lots more flexibility for copying/syncing 
multiple files.

Dave



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