I. Abstract

Sometimes we experience the situation we need to upload or download something and there is no ftp installed yet. The following article provides information about uploading (push’ing) or downloading (pull’ing) via SSH using the terminal only.

II. Push commands (Upload to server)

• client$ ssh remote_address cat <localfile ">" remote_file
• client$ ssh remote_address cat <localfile - ">" remote_file
• client$ ssh remote_address cat <local_file "|" dd of=remote_file
• client$ ssh remote_address cat - <local_file "|" dd of=remote_file

• client$ cat local_file | ssh remote_address cat ">" remote_file
• client$ cat local_file | ssh remote_address cat - ">" remote_file

• client$ dd if=local_file | ssh remote_address dd of=remote_file

III. Pull commands (Download from server)

• client$ ssh remote_address cat remote_file > local_file
• client$ ssh remote_address cat "<" remote_file >local_file
• client$ ssh remote_address dd if=remote_file | dd of=local_file

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IV. Final words
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