OpenSSH sget/sput suggestion

[Iain Morgan]

On Wed Aug 17 09:04:30 2005, CRX Driver wrote:
> 
> Not sure if this has ever been suggested before as a feature request, but I 
> am getting off my lazy a** and sending this Email to your list.  Hopefully 
> you will think it is a wonderful idea.
> 
> I am forever using the wonderful OpenSSH on many systems and have done so 
> for many years.  But I often find myself wanting to transfer files while 
> ssh'ed into another system.
> 
> If I could just have a way to transfer a file back to me with something like 
> "sget" or "sput" WHILE I am ssh'ed into another machine, THAT would save a 
> tremendous amount of time.  As it is now, you have to type long names and 
> paths and a password again each time with a separate scp session.

You could use session multiplexing to eliminate some of the tedium.

> 
> Imagine this:
> 
> ssh user at machine.com
> cd /home/user
> ls
> rm junk
> sget logfile
> 

You can already do this with sftp.

> 
> (and "logfile" just immediately gets scp'ed to my local machine)
> 
> I imagine "scp" or "sget" would somehow open a tunnel back to the client 
> side for file transfer.  Or, I suppose it could be triggered in the client 
> with a special keystroke while ssh'ed into a remote site.
> 


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Iain Morgan