On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Phill Coxon <phi...@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 15:32 +1200, Hadley Rich wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 14:40 +1200, Phill Coxon wrote: > > > I use sftp:// in konquorer to copy files back and forth between the > > > server and my local computer. > > > > Try using a different client, I'd try the command line client to start > > with. > > I'm using the GUI for a reason - it saves a massive amount of time. I > can drag and drop 10 files in a directory in 2-3 seconds as opposed to > trying to find and type the 10 file names separately on the command line > (even using tab completion). > > There's way too much potential for typing error on the command line. > > I'll see what other SFTP clients I can dig up though... > > > lftp http://lftp.yar.ru/ Its purely awesome. You get remote SFTP access just as if it were local files, tab-completion, job control ( each transfer can be &'d ) , everything, even has a mirror command that JustWorks and doesn't slip into nasty recursion problems. Also works for plain-old ftp and in some cases, you can spider websites with it like they were filesystems! -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA nocomil.i...@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );"
