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Is there a convenient method to pull files from a server in an SSH session?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 2026900 views
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Problem

I often SSH into a cluster node for work and after processing want to pull several results back to my local machine for analysis. Typically, to do this I use a local shell to scp from the server, but this requires a lot of path manipulation. I'd prefer to use a syntax like interactive FTP and just …

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scp results home:~/results

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Have you tried sshfs ? It's easy as and and then you can use all the classic and basic file manipulation commands. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFS http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html

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