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It still does have file-copying capabilities. See scp(1).
by rjsw 10y ago
It still does have file-copying capabilities. See scp(1).
- teddyh 10y agoScp was, according to its manual page, based on rcp (part of the rsh/rlogin set of programs): “scp is based on the rcp program”.
- rjsw 10y agoSure, but scp uses the same port as ssh so the underlying protocol has to deal with both terminal and file copying commands.
- caf 10y agoWell, yes, exactly: rsh, rlogin and rcp were often considered together, as they both used the same access control - /etc/hosts.equiv. So it's not that surprising that ssh, slogin and scp came together as a replacement set.
- icedchai 10y agoAnd don't forget sftp!
- teddyh 10y agoSftp was not part of the original SSH program, IIRC.
- icedchai 10y agoI agree. I first started using SSH in 1996 or so, building it from source on a Linux Slackware system (which didn't even have ELF binaries!) sftp didn't appear for a few years later.
- stragulus 10y agoI remember porting my system from a.out to elf binaries. Manually. Learned a lot though.