ssh-xfer: Quickly Grabbing Files Over an Existing SSH connection

LinuxSecurity.com: The ssh-xfer project uses the local SSH agent to allow you to easily grab files using an existing SSH shell connection. You do not have to modify either the SSH client or server programs to use ssh-xfer -- but you will need to patch your ssh-agent. Although having to patch the ssh-agent is not ideal, you do gain one major advantage by doing this: you can send a file through more than one SSH connection. Have you ever used ssh-xfer? This article shows the user how to use ssh-xfer to get files over a network using a SSH shell connection.

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