Re: first ssh, then start copying

From: Kyler Laird (Kyler_at_news.Lairds.org)
Date: 02/15/04 

Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 23:12:05 GMT

mark.wirdnam@stud.unibas.ch (Mark Wirdnam) writes:

>I often use ssh to look at what files I have on a remote server, then
>exit, remembering the location of the files I want to copy, and scp
>from the local machine to get the files. This seems so inefficient,

        kyler@jowls:/tmp$ kermit -C "set host /pipe ssh -tt lairds.us kermit -x 2>/dev/null"
        C-Kermit 7.0.196, 1 Jan 2000, for Linux
         Copyright (C) 1985, 2000,
          Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
        Type ? or HELP for help.
        (/tmp/) C-Kermit>remote dir /etc/motd
         Press the X or E key to cancel.
        -rw-r--r-- 355 2004-01-20 17:30:43 /etc/motd
        (/tmp/) C-Kermit>get /etc/motd
        (/tmp/) C-Kermit>run cat -n motd
             1 Linux lairds.us 2.6.1 #1 Sun Jan 18 02:23:04 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
             2
             3 The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
             4 the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
             5 individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
             6
             7 Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
             8 permitted by applicable law.
        (/tmp/) C-Kermit>close
         Closing connection
        (/tmp/) C-Kermit>quit

--kyler

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