Feature Request : scp front end

[Les Mikesell]

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 -- something like what I do, for instance, when I 
> download pix to my home directory, and them move them into the directory 
> I want them in.
> 
> If this could be done, it would sure make life easier for some of us -- 
> especially when we have to do a fresh install on one or more machines ...

If you are mostly trying to duplicate whole directory trees, try
cd local_dir
rsync -av -essh . user at remote_host:/remote/path

rsync will figure out on its own what's already there.

If you want all your tools to have access to remote things over ssh, try
yum install fuse-ssh
sshfs user at remote_host:/path /local/mount_point
and visit /local/mount_point in a GUI file manager (or whatever you prefer).

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   Les Mikesell
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