Maybe that was a poor example. You can use SSH paths like any other local file. cp /ssh:remote.net:~/foo ~/bar cd /ssh:remote.net:~ cat /ssh:remot

Maybe that was a poor example. You can use SSH paths like any other local file. cp /ssh:remote.net:~/foo ~/bar cd /ssh:remote.net:~ cat /ssh:remote.net:~/foo ~/bar /ssh:somewhere.org:~/whatever You can easily write your own eshell extensions and they will automatically work for remote and local files alike.