Recently I've been working with a relatively new Linux user. He's been
having a lot of fun with some FOSS utilities, and I think we may have
another convert. Yesterday he needed to move some files from his Linux
system to a Windows box. Like many Windows users, SMB was his first
thought. We went another way, though.
What do you use to move data between you Windows and Linux machines?
Maybe you have given up on Windows, what do you use to move files
between Linux machines?
For this circumstance, we didn't want to mess around with the Windows
machine too much, so setting up a share and all that Jazz seemed
unnecessary. The Linux machine happened to be running openssh-server,
so I figured we would just use scp. Well, knowing we've got a
new-to-linux user, I didn't want to send him to the command line in
Windows to move the file, so I poked around and found that Filezilla was
installed on the Windows box.
Filezilla is a very nice GUI FTP/SFTP app that looks a lot like all the
others. It is split into two main sections. The left is your local
system, and the right is your remote file system. You simply give it
the host to which you want to connect, the service you want to use, and
the cradentials needed to authenticate, and happily drag-and-drop
files. It's a very nice interface. For this user, it was easy enough
that I didn't need to coach at all, other than to explain the service
being used.
I've gotten to the habbit, when helping Linux users move files between
Linux systems, of just sending them to scp and forcing them to read
through the man pages. scp, if you are unaware, is an extention of ssh
that allows you to easily move files. Syntax is like this:
Copy files to a remote system:
scp file_to_move.txt user@remote:/folder/file_moved_to.txt
Copy files from a remote system:
scp user@remote:/folder/file_you_want.txt new_local_file.txt
Mike K.
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