scp vs sftp.

[Mats Andersson]

Hi,

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Markus Friedl wrote:
> fast and simple: scp
> slow and complex: sftp

:-)

Well, while I do agree that scp is fast and simple (after all it's a clone
of rcp), I must say that sftp IMHO is not very complex though it might
have its shortcomings. I would like to put it:

scp: fast/simple protocol for replacing rcp in scripts similar for moving
files across an arbitrary transport such as ssh.

sftp: rather clean/general protocol for implementing remote filesystem
access across an arbitrary transport such as ssh.

Note that I'm speaking of the protocols here, as for the client/server
implementations I have nothing to say... :-)

Cheers,

/Mats