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Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook

You're reading from   Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook Do amazing things with the shell and automate tedious tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
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ISBN-13 9781785881985
Length 552 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Title Page
Credits
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Preface
1. Shell Something Out FREE CHAPTER 2. Have a Good Command 3. File In, File Out 4. Texting and Driving 5. Tangled Web? Not At All! 6. Repository Management 7. The Backup Plan 8. The Old-Boy Network 9. Put On the Monitors Cap 10. Administration Calls 11. Tracing the Clues 12. Tuning a Linux System 13. Containers, Virtual Machines, and the Cloud

Transferring files through the network


A major use for networking computers is resource sharing. Files are a common shared resource. There are different methods for transferring files between systems, ranging from a USB stick and sneakernet to network links such as NFS and Samba. These recipes describe how to transfer files using the common protocols FTP, SFTP, RSYNC, and SCP.

Getting ready

The commands for performing file transfer over the network are mostly available by default with Linux installation. Files can be transferred via FTP using the traditional ftp command or the newer lftp, or via an SSH connection using scp or sftp. Files can be synchronized across systems with the rsync command.

How to do it...

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is old and is used in many public websites to share files. The service usually runs on port 21. FTP requires that an FTP server be installed and running on the remote machine. We can use the traditional ftp command or the newer lftp command to access an FTP...

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