Wow! I just say woow. Sometimes you discover great things by accident, and wonder why someone haven’t told you about it before. So what is it that got me so flabbergasted? The short story: it’s fish.
Let me just take a few steps back and explain the chain of events that unfolded into my small discovery. I got the idea to quickly brief myself about WebDAV implementations, this led me to visit the Wikipedia article on the subject. Since I use Linux (Gentoo Linux to be exact) and KDE as my desktop environment I continued to read the Wikipedia article about Konqueror, because it has WebDAV support.
It was there I found it. A feature I hadn’t known about. A protocol that would make my life a much happier place. Fish.
That’s it. Just like you can type man:/grep and feast your eyes on a beautifully rendered man page in Konqueror, you can type fish:/username@host and log onto a remote secure shell. That is, do everything you usually used scp and ssh for when administering files on a remote server, but this time in the file manager just like your local files.
With that said. And all explained. I just want to say that I’m not a GUI-only n00b, and I do use the comandline heavily (well I am using Gentoo after all). But graphical browsing and drag-n-drop can be real fun. E’nuff.
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