OpenSSH sget/sput suggestion

[Phil Dibowitz]

I didn't see any responses to this email. I'd like to see what people think
about the and if no one wants to impliment it, maybe I'll sit down and do
it... but certianly not if the developers don't think that's where the feature
belongs.


On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:12:41AM -0700, Phil Dibowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 03:10:45PM +1000, openssh-unix-dev-request at mindrot.org wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:56:19 +1000
> > From: Darren Tucker <dtucker at zip.com.au>
> > Subject: Re: OpenSSH sget/sput suggestion
> > To: CRX Driver <crxssi at hotmail.com>
> > Cc: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
> > Message-ID: <430590A3.1090506 at zip.com.au>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> > 
> > CRX Driver wrote:
> > >>>Imagine this:
> > >>>
> > >>>ssh user at machine.com
> > >>>cd /home/user
> > >>>ls
> > >>>rm junk
> > >>>sget logfile
> > > 
> > >>You can already do this with sftp.
> > > 
> > > You can file browse with sftp, but you cannot run programs, kill processes 
> > > and then grab a file all while already on-line through an existing ssh.
> > 
> > See also the related discussion earlier on this list:
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=112116732631189&w=2
> 
> Regarding the above thread and the above linked thread...
> 
> Having the "ssh -MS ..." is nice, but is NOT the same feature. I've been
> meaning to impliment the feature referenced in the above thread for over a
> year now.
> 
> There's no reason I shouldn't be able to be in the middle of some work on a
> shell and put or get a file - though instead of making a ~S, I would have
> implimented it in the ~C cli interface.
> 
> For example, it would be great to be doing something on a remote box, realize
> I need the 4-line script in my local ~/bin and do a ~C, sput ~/bin/script,
> quit, ./script.
> 
> Or have some long shell-pipeline and then redirect it to a file and then do ~C
> sget file, quit, and continue working.
> 
> -- 
> Phil Dibowitz
> 



-- 
Phil Dibowitz

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