Feature Request : scp front end

[Charles Curley]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 05:56:34PM +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> 
> Afaik, there is no GUI front end for scp -- or I don't know how to look 
> for one. Would it be possible to have such a thing?
> 
> I'm thinking, given an established ssh connection between two machines, 
> it would sometimes be a lot easier to drag and drop files than for 
> arthritic eyeballs and trifocal fingers to type out long character-
> perfect strings for scp

Short of a GUI, and far more general, is tab
completion.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/articles/lj/0098/5765/5765s3.html. The
article is aimed at Emacs, but much of it will work in BASH.

Speaking of Emacs, Emacs's dired mode might be useful here as well. It
can use SSH/SCP to copy across networks.

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