Feature Request : scp front end

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

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
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