Feature Request : scp front end
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Fri Aug 17 23:37:55 UTC 2007
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 ...
>
Besides the GUI solutions you already have, from the command line,
you can use Midnight Commander (mc) to open up one pane on a remote
system. You can then copy, move, delete, etc just like it was a
local file system. The only restriction is that you can not run
commands on the remote file system.
Mikkel
--
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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