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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Not all sftp sites allow scp and/or have bash.&nbsp;&nbsp;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Here, we communicate with many partners over sftp and several of them use canned apps on Windows for the purpose.&nbsp;&nbsp; Even those that do UNIX/Linux often have
 jailed the users on their end so have limited functionality beyond what sftp itself allows.&nbsp;&nbsp;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Since sftp has a batch option it is simplest for us to rely on sftp scripts.&nbsp;&nbsp; We typically get ssh trust established to avoid having to store the password
 in clear text anywhere.&nbsp;&nbsp; (I did recently play with “sshpass” as it allows one to send a password on the initial connection and it works but the preference is to do trusts instead.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> ale-bounces@ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Scott Plante<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 13, 2016 3:02 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ale] Can SFTP do this<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Actually it does if you have password-less ssh set up (keys &#43; ssh-add) and bash-completion. It's working for me--I just tried it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">Scott<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">&quot;Alex Carver&quot; &lt;</span><a href="mailto:agcarver&#43;ale@acarver.net"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">agcarver&#43;ale@acarver.net</span></a><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">&gt;<br>
<b>To: </b></span><a href="mailto:ale@ale.org"><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">ale@ale.org</span></a><span style="font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black"><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Thursday, October 13, 2016 11:51:50 AM<br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Can SFTP do this<br>
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On 2016-10-13 02:35, DJ-Pfulio wrote:<br>
&gt; On 10/13/2016 01:26 AM, Steve Litt wrote:<br>
&gt;&gt; Unless I know the *exact* spelling of the path and file on the far end,<br>
&gt;&gt; I use sftp because it's discoverable.<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; tab completion.<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; Just sayin'.<br>
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Tab completion doesn't work over scp for the remote side file system.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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