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

[gchick]

If you're working in Linux (which I think I remember you are, at least some of the time?) sshfs is made of unadulterated awesome. It works by mounting any site you can SSH to as a local volume, so you can not only edit on the server but treat your hack files just like local ones when it comes to things like browsing for them to upload through a browser.

[zvi]

ohmygod, that's so sexy.

I just, really, wow, so sexy.

[mark]

I have never seen this sshfs, but woah, want! :O

[afuna]

Psst, mark/zvi: http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Mounting_server_directories_under_Linux

[yvi]

I am finding sshfs rather slow, actually. For most things, I just use scp.

[afuna]

Same for me, but it sounds really amazing for people with better internet connections *g*

[yvi]

I find that a bit surprising, since my internet connection *is* very good.

Maybe standards of that vary around the world, but I don't usually have any problems with speed, so I was very confused by how slow sshfs was working for me - changing directories was quite painful.