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File transfer through SSH is easy!

Mateus Abelli on August 20, 2023

For newcomers, SSH itself might look hard at first and file transferring even more complicated. How to connect to a remote machine to send or copy ...

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Ben Sinclair • Aug 21 '23

Yeah, I'll use scp for a quick glob or directory, or if rsync isn't installed, but rsync is much better in most cases.

Mateus Abelli • Aug 21 '23

Hello Ben, I havent studied rsync in depth but it looks like a great option to have the files synced between remote and local host. Thanks for the comment :)

Ben Sinclair • Aug 22 '23

Neither of them have to be remote or local, by the way. You can scp or rsync on your local drive from one directory to another just as easily. With rsync though, it gives you the super powers to do things like only copy files that have changed, or to delete files that aren't in the source directory!

Mateus Abelli • Aug 22 '23

That's awesome, I'm definitely going to check out rsync, those features are super useful! thank you :)

Koas • Aug 22 '23

Also, rsync is the base for the almighty rsnapshot, a great tool to make data backups across servers or between your hard drive and an external drive.

Chris White • Aug 21 '23

Hi Mateus,

I really like how your article was presented. If you're looking for more article ideas, I think something on basic ~/.ssh/config usage would be helpful (and maybe ssh-agent). It would really tie well with the content you have here. Keep up the good work!

Mateus Abelli • Aug 21 '23

Hey Chris, thank you, that is awesome! I'll take a look at your suggestions with great appreciation :)

Ivan Novak • Aug 20 '23

Great write up Mateus!

I really like the use of emoji pointers to annotate the code and call out specific pieces of the commands.

Mateus Abelli • Aug 20 '23

Thank you, I'm still looking at yours to get inspiration but I think that with time I'm going to get better at it. It's awesome that you read it, thanks again 👍