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Gosh only Idiots out there...

Told my coworker, to install the tomar manager on server 1. Same easiest way for him just copy it from server 2. He was already in console of the first... then I see that he opened winscp, navigating via gui to the directory miss clicked a few times. Tried drag and drop the folder to desktop. Get notified that he didn't installed the plugin. Dragged it to another folder on his pc in winscp. Started new session of winscp for the other server. And so on. I said after he started the first winscp that the command line would be 1000x faster.
Meanwhile I wrote the command for this torture on a sticky note and left the room. That wastes too much time of 2 ppls. Good old days when the most people's know how to use a console.

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  • 2
    Stickynote:
    scp user@server1:/target/directory/remote /local/directory
    For all the people who would do the same. Try this 😑
  • 5
    Or scp -r
    Personally I prefer
    tar czpf - <dir> | ssh user@host "cd /wherever && tar xzvpf -"
    so that permissions, timestamps and softlinks are preserved. Also solves slow transfers of many small files. You can remove the compression as well if you want
  • 1
    @LrdShaper that's awesome dunno that you can pipe files over machine's that way 😮
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