Extremely naive question about working with SSH

[zvi]

Okay, when I have a patchfile on my dreamhack, how do I get it out of my dreamhack?

That is to say, when people have asked me to pastebin a file to them, I've been running less on the file, copying each screen, and adding them all together until they make the whole file and then posting it to pastebin.

I know this doesn't transfer files with 100% accuracy to pastebin, but it's usually good enough. However, there has to be a better way to get a file off the dreamhack and onto my local computer, so I can upload it to bugzilla. I just can't, for the life of me, figure out what that better way might be.

Comments

[sophie]

Another way you can do it, as well as Mark's method above, is to use a program like WinSCP (if you're using Windows) or some other program that can browse SFTP. That'll let you download things onto your computer.

[zvi]

I think Linux has SCP. I'll look it up, thanks.

[sophie]

Ah, right. I use Linux too as my main OS, but I just assume most people don't. ;p

I don't use sshfs as suggested by some commenters, mostly because I'd probably forget to unmount it or something and then if I mounted it in the wrong place updatedb would start indexing it next morning. ;p What I actually tend to do is either scp or a combination of ssh+tar, such as:

ssh dh-sophie@hack.dreamwidth.net "cd somedir; tar zc *" | tar zxv

I do this when I need to transfer multiple files. since I've found scp to be abysmally slow at that, if there are a lot of files, even with compression on.

Hope that helps. :)