I have two Macs, both with BASH being the default shell. Mac1 has a tricked-out .bashrc. Mac2 just got a clean OS upgrade, so pretty much everything is stock from Apple. Since file xfer between the ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. The more distributed ...

To transfer files back and forth to CS unix servers from a unix system, use either the scp(non-interactive) or sftp(interactive) commands. Both of these commands will ...

All SCP (Secure Copy Protocol) implementations from the last 36 years, since 1983, are vulnerable to four security bugs that allow a malicious SCP server to make unauthorized changes to a client's ...

So I've been using PoshSSH modules for a good number of years now but suddenly mine seems broken and not sure why. I can create new SSH sessions fine and perform tasks as-usual but the SCP and SFTP ...

I have several Linux machines on my network, each serving a different purpose. I frequently need to transfer files back and forth between them, and I'd rather not do so via a cloud service, email, or ...

Last week’s README file demonstrated how easy it is to turn virtually any desktop machine into an SFTP server. Today’s piece shows how to automate a well-known Windows open source SFTP client using ...