Still using these obsolete Linux commands? Perhaps it is time to look for alternatives.

Still using these obsolete Linux commands? They might be popular from the olden days but perhaps it is time to look for alternatives.

  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 day ago

    rsync is cool but is nowhere a replacement for scp’s main use case. scp actually uses your SSH client settings file, whereas rsync doesn’t (it does have the opportunity to use a SSH command, which you then have to setup separately).

    • Brummbaer@pawb.social
      1·
      12 hours ago

      I’m not sure I get what you mean. In every distro I used so far rsync did use ssh by default so it would honor everything I set in the ssh config.

      • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Not everything however. For it to catch some options , for example SOCKS bridges, you have to use the SSH passthrough notation aka rsync -e 'ssh bridgename...' --rsync-options.... And ofc if you have to load a different SSH conffile, you have to use the while passthrough for that as well, there’s no rsync native option to load a SSH conffile: rsync -e 'ssh -F conffile ssh_options...' --rsync-options....