[svlug] Best FTP Server

[Don Marti]

begin Akkana Peck quotation of Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 11:36:32AM -0800:

> I mostly use scp myself, but he does have a point and I haven't
> been able to suggest anything for ssh copies that's as easy to use
> as ncftp. Suggestions?

bash does let you do programmable completion, and
some environments set you up with a nice script that
does this for scp.  

With Debian's bash package, you can  scp www:pub<TAB>
and it autocompletes to www:public_html, for example.

Good intro to this kind of thing:
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/316

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Don Marti
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