sftp client

[Damien Miller]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Jos Backus wrote:

> That's great Damien!
> 
> Now, how hard would it be to turn this into a non-interactive client?  This
> would yield the functionality of scp without having to grant shell access.

There is a quick and dirty way you can do this now, it probably 
wouldn't be too much work to make this into a real commandline mode:

echo -e "ls\nget /tmp/somefile /tmp/localfile" | sftp user at host

-d

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