Ok so all you want to is to ssh into your server and pull a stack of files over from another PC via ftp. Sounds simple does it now. This is linux we are talking about.. nothing is simple. The short answer.. sod ftp use wget like [bash]wget -r ftp://user: pass@domain/folder/*[/bash] Long answer And being [...]
To extract .tar.gz or .tgz files from terminal or via ssh tar -zxvf file.tar.gz or tar -zxvf filename.tgz I don’t know about anyone else but 99% of the time when faced with a compressed tar file I want to extract it to its own folder and view the progress of the decompression. So why it [...]
Scenario: You are sat at a linux box (ubuntu, fedora, suse etc) and want to ssh into another linux box (probably your webserver). By default typing ssh remote-domain.com will attempt to log you in as the user you are currently logged in as. However, you may want to log into the remote machine as someone [...]