[ale] Can SFTP do this

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com
Thu Oct 13 01:26:55 EDT 2016


On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 07:11:42 -0700
Jerald Sheets <questy at gmail.com> wrote:

> I’ve always found it curious the number of folks that would use sftp
> over scp.  Is there any intrinsic benefit of one over the other?  The
> interactivity would annoy the bejeezus out of me.

Unless I know the *exact* spelling of the path and file on the far end,
I use sftp because it's discoverable.

And typically, if scp is appropriate, rsync is even more appropriate.

SteveT

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