Related earlier discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5022457 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5022457 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44

Related earlier discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5022457 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5022457 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4481234 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4481234 A pretty good thread on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/mi80x/give_me_that_one_command_you_wish_you_knew_years/ http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/mi80x/give_me_that_on... Edit: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3257393 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3257393 for a discussion of the above thread. While we're at it, consider using weborf [1] as an alternative to Python's SimpleHTTPServer for simple file sharing. I found it able to saturate a gigabit ethernet connection when hosted on a Core 2 Duo ULV laptop with an SSD. [1] See http://galileo.dmi.unict.it/wiki/weborf/doku.php?id=start http://galileo.dmi.unict.it/wiki/weborf/doku.php?id=start. It's available from the official repos in Debian and Ubuntu with sudo apt-get install weborf Invoking it is dead simple: weborf -b ~/dir-to-share