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Reverse SCP over SSH connection

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Mar 15, 202626006 views
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Problem

I pretty often need some file from some server when I'm on my laptop. But if I don't know where that file is, I have to into the server, look around, , and then . If I'm working with my desktop and my server, both of which have static IPs, I can just SCP the file in reverse ( ), but I can't do that…

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Fix for: Reverse SCP over SSH connection

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This would be a lot easier with SFTP, which is an extension to SSH that supports more complex file operations than SCP. Virtually all modern Unix and Linux distributions support it. To use it, just run this command to connect to the server: Then you…

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