Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-04-01 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
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 This works if you cna login without a password to u...@remotemachine . There ar

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-04-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 01:02:10AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 22 March 2010 00:57, Selçuk Mıynat wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 00:52, Dotan Cohen 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

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-23 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:52:36AM +0200, Dotan Cohen 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

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-22 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-03-22 15:33:20, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 22 March 2010 18:46, Tony Nelson > wrote: ... > > p.s. I hate screen. > > > > Why? I actually like it. Besides having to learn a new set of odd keybindings, I use the scrollback of a terminal a lot, and entering a mode to do it was not satisfacto

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 22 March 2010 18:46, Tony Nelson wrote: > On 10-03-21 18:52:36, Dotan Cohen 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 >>

Re: Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> I can have as many open connections as I want, it's on the LAN. But I >> would _prefer_ just one terminal window for both commands (SSH) and >> file transfers. > > > You might like to try this. > > 1) Add to ~/.ssh/config > ControlMaster auto > ControlPath /tmp/%h%p%r > (man ssh_config for expla

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-22 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-03-21 18:52:36, Dotan Cohen 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?

Re: Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-22 Thread Clive Standbridge
> I can have as many open connections as I want, it's on the LAN. But I > would _prefer_ just one terminal window for both commands (SSH) and > file transfers. You might like to try this. 1) Add to ~/.ssh/config ControlMaster auto ControlPath /tmp/%h%p%r (man ssh_config for explanation). 2) Fir

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> I can have as many open connections as I want, it's on the LAN. But I >> would _prefer_ just one terminal window for both commands (SSH) and >> file transfers. > > First of all, I believe the ssh protocol (not necessarily the ssh > program) already support exactly what you want: logging in and,

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
> You are getting many responses, so perhaps this idea has already been > rejected, however --- I use ssh AND sshfs. I get shell access to the > remote machine with ssh and for file access I mount the portion of the > remote fs that a want on a local mount point. I know there are a lot > of machina

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
>>   As others have commented, you can use scp or sftp. >> >>   However, I can imagine that embedded might not have the >> sftp service or the scp executable. >> >>   If that's your case, you can always do: >> >> # cat file | ssh remote 'cat > destinaton' > >  Pardon my replying to myself, but I've

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dotan Cohen wrote: > I can have as many open connections as I want, it's on the LAN. But I > would _prefer_ just one terminal window for both commands (SSH) and > file transfers. First of all, I believe the ssh protocol (not necessarily the ssh progra

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100322_010210, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 22 March 2010 00:57, Selçuk Mıynat wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 00:52, Dotan Cohen 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 > >>

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Andrew Reid
On Sunday 21 March 2010 23:14:32 Andrew Reid wrote: > On Sunday 21 March 2010 18:52:36 Dotan Cohen 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 r

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Andrew Reid
On Sunday 21 March 2010 18:52:36 Dotan Cohen 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 a

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Aliases, scripts and passwordless login. > I never use them an alias on a remote system because then I will never remember which have aliases and which do not. I need to keep my knowledge portable. I have a bunch of these little critters that I need to configure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-21 19:34, Dotan Cohen wrote: That could be worded better. I meant that "lls" does not exist in sftp, but it is something that I've always wanted. "man ssh" and "man scp" really are your friends! From machine_a: $ ssh u...@machine_b ls -aFl /some/remote/dir No, that's a workarou

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Dotan Cohen put forth on 3/21/2010 7:37 PM: >> http://www.mosix.org/ >> > > Thanks, Stan, but I think you missed a few messages in the thread! I > am looking for an interface to a remote machine that include features > from both sftp and ssh shell. Mosix negates those interfaces. All resources a

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Stan Hoeppner put forth on 3/21/2010 7:34 PM: > Dotan Cohen put forth on 3/21/2010 6:47 PM: >>> Sigh. What exactly are you trying to *accomplish* >>> >> >> Just an example: >> I want to move a tarball to the machine, unpack it there then edit a >> file it in. I then want to make that file exec

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
> http://www.mosix.org/ > Thanks, Stan, but I think you missed a few messages in the thread! I am looking for an interface to a remote machine that include features from both sftp and ssh shell. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> That could be worded better. I meant that "lls" does not exist in >> sftp, but it is something that I've always wanted. > > "man ssh" and "man scp" really are your friends! > > From machine_a: >    $ ssh u...@machine_b ls -aFl /some/remote/dir > No, that's a workaround. I'll have RSI before I g

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Dotan Cohen put forth on 3/21/2010 6:47 PM: >> Sigh. What exactly are you trying to *accomplish* >> > > Just an example: > I want to move a tarball to the machine, unpack it there then edit a > file it in. I then want to make that file executable, run it, and > transfer the output file back t

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> That is what I am doing. But I thought it would be nice to have it all >> in one session. > > http://i-want-a-pony.com/IWantAPony.jpg > I know! But I've actually gotten quite a few ponies by asking, thus this thread. Certainly I am not the first man to administer a remote machine with the need

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon Mar 22, 2010 at 01:27:22 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I had considered fuse, but there is no real advantage. I still need > two terminal windows open: one for transferring files (sftp) and the > second for running commands (ssh). gnu screen. One terminal. Multiple programs. Steve -- ht

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-21 19:10, Dotan Cohen wrote: And maybe having a "lls" (local ls) would have been nice too, something I've always missed from sftp. That could be worded better. I meant that "lls" does not exist in sftp, but it is something that I've always wanted. "man ssh" and "man scp" really a

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Dotan Cohen wrote: Why don't you have two sessions open, one for transferring through sftp and one vi and whatever else through ssh That is what I am doing. But I thought it would be nice to have it all in one session. http://i-want-a-pony.com/IWantAPony.jpg -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua..

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
> And maybe having a "lls" (local ls) would have been nice too, > something I've always missed from sftp. > That could be worded better. I meant that "lls" does not exist in sftp, but it is something that I've always wanted. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com Please CC me i

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Always starting from machine_a, where machine_b is the "original" remote > host. > > METHOD A. > 1. ssh u...@machine_b > 2. scp -v u...@machine_a:/some/tar/ball . > 3. untar ... > 4. chmod u+x > 5. ./whatever > 6. scp -v output.txt u...@machine_a:/home/user/. > 7. exit > > > METHOD B. > 1. scp -v

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 22 March 2010 01:58, Ustun Kaya wrote: > still scp: > > us...@local>ls > file.tgz > us...@local>ssh us...@remote > us...@remote>scp us...@local:file.tgz . While this is more cumbersome than "put" I will contend that it works. Frankly I am surprised that this is the lease cumbersome way, I was

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-21 18:47, Dotan Cohen wrote: Sigh. What exactly are you trying to *accomplish* Just an example: I want to move a tarball to the machine, unpack it there then edit a file it in. I then want to make that file executable, run it, and transfer the output file back to my localhost.

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 01:25:33AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Eh?  I think you're imposing unneeded self limits. > > > > How so? With scp I can send file to the machine that I'm remotely connected > to? Like this: # On local-machine ssh # type type type in remote-machine shell… scp local-ma

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Ustun Kaya
still scp: us...@local>ls file.tgz us...@local>ssh us...@remote us...@remote>scp us...@local:file.tgz . us...@remote>ls file.tgz us...@remote>tar xzvf file.tgz us...@remote>"do whatever you want" us...@remote> scp file.tgz us...@local: Best, Ustun On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Dotan Cohen wr

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
>  gnu screen.  One terminal.  Multiple programs. > That has no advantage over multiple terminal windows. If I cd in one of them, the other doesn't cd, for instance. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Sigh.  What exactly are you trying to *accomplish* > Just an example: I want to move a tarball to the machine, unpack it there then edit a file it in. I then want to make that file executable, run it, and transfer the output file back to my localhost. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http:/

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> How so? With scp I can send file to the machine that I'm remotely >> connected to? > > Of course.  It's a *copy* program. > For copying to a remote machine. But once I have a shell on that machine open in my terminal, I'm not able to send commands to my local machine in that terminal. >> So t

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-21 18:26, Dotan Cohen wrote: Yes, but then I cannot get a regular shell for vim and such. I need to both run commands and also transfer files. That's what scp is for! How can I get a shell with scp? Sigh. What exactly are you trying to *accomplish* -- "History does no

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-21 18:28, Dotan Cohen wrote: well you can ssh to the remote machine first, then scp back to the localhost from the remote machine, does the trick? scp is for putting files, not for getting files. That's just *not* true. It doesn't care whether the source or destination are remo

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-21 18:25, Dotan Cohen wrote: No, scp is for sending files to a remote machine that the user has yet to connect to: Eh? I think you're imposing unneeded self limits. How so? With scp I can send file to the machine that I'm remotely connected to? Of course. It's a *copy* program

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
> sftp is to ftp what ssh is to telnet. You did not have a telnet shell > in the past when connecting through ftp. > I realize that. > If you can only have one connection and need both shell and transfer > access, someone suggested sshfs earlier. > I can have as many open connections as I want,

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Why don't you have two sessions open, one for transferring through > sftp and one vi and whatever else through ssh? > That is what I am doing. But I thought it would be nice to have it all in one session. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com Please CC me if you want to be

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Tom H
>> sftp. > ✈dcl:~$ sftp u...@1.2.3.4 > Connecting to 1.2.3.4... > u...@1.2.3.4's password: > sftp> which ls > Invalid command. > sftp> > > So there, no shell. I need a shell. sftp is to ftp what ssh is to telnet. You did not have a telnet shell in the past when connecting through ftp. If you can

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
> well you can ssh to the remote machine first, then scp back to the > localhost from the remote machine, does the trick? > scp is for putting files, not for getting files. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> Yes, but then I cannot get a regular shell for vim and such. I need to >> both run commands and also transfer files. >> > > Well, you can't. But sshfs might help, you mount a remote filesystem > (accessed via ssh) and use files as in any other filesystem. > > I had considered fuse, but there is

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> Yes, but then I cannot get a regular shell for vim and such. I need to >> both run commands and also transfer files. >> > > That's what scp is for! > How can I get a shell with scp? -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com Please CC me if you want to be sure that I read y

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> No, scp is for sending files to a remote machine that the user has yet >> to connect to: > > Eh?  I think you're imposing unneeded self limits. > How so? With scp I can send file to the machine that I'm remotely connected to? > sftp. > ✈dcl:~$ sftp u...@1.2.3.4 Connecting to 1.2.3.4... u...@

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Tom H
>> The default >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config >> has a >> subsystem sftp ... >> towards the end of the file, so you should be able to run >> sftp u...@host >> and use the above ftp commands. > Yes, but then I cannot get a regular shell for vim and such. I need to > both run commands and also transfer fil

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Ustun Kaya
well you can ssh to the remote machine first, then scp back to the localhost from the remote machine, does the trick? Best, Ustun On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-21 18:05, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> >>> The default >>> /etc/ssh/sshd_config >>> has a >>> subsystem sft

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Dotan Cohen wrote: Yes, but then I cannot get a regular shell for vim and such. I need to both run commands and also transfer files. Well, you can't. But sshfs might help, you mount a remote filesystem (accessed via ssh) and use files as in any other filesystem. -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edu

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-21 18:05, Dotan Cohen wrote: The default /etc/ssh/sshd_config has a subsystem sftp ... towards the end of the file, so you should be able to run sftp u...@host and use the above ftp commands. Yes, but then I cannot get a regular shell for vim and such. I need to both run commands an

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-21 18:02, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 22 March 2010 00:57, Selçuk Mıynat wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 00:52, Dotan Cohen 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 unde

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
> The default > /etc/ssh/sshd_config > has a > subsystem sftp ... > towards the end of the file, so you should be able to run > sftp u...@host > and use the above ftp commands. > Yes, but then I cannot get a regular shell for vim and such. I need to both run commands and also transfer files. --

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 22 March 2010 00:57, Selçuk Mıynat wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 00:52, Dotan Cohen 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 S

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Tom H
> 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 a

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Selçuk Mıynat
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 00:52, Dotan Cohen 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