Comment by vbezhenar
17 hours ago
I might be weird, but for me the most obvious way to transfer a small directory is to do
tar -cz dir | base64
Copy output into clipboard
base64 -d | tar -xz
Paste from clipboard into input
Works flawlessly to move configs and stuff between servers.
I actually love the blend between terminal and GUI. For this example I'm using CLI tools to produce text and I'm using GUI to scroll, select and copy&paste the text between two terminal tabs. I wish developers put more emphasis on empowering terminal with GUI capabilities.
On Mac you can use pbcopy to copy something your pasteboard aka clipboard.
So the first command becomes:
And of course you can use pbpaste for the inverse. Doesn’t work over SSH though, which is almost certainly how you’d be using this.
True that unless ssh tunnels the pasteboard nowadays ;)
GP was doing this using GUI and TUI so it's a case of having two terminals open to two different machines I assume.
Under certain circumstances, like where machines are not directly accessible to each other and you’re only able to connect by Remote Desktop or something, that’s not actually bad way to do that. But for machines that are on the same network, using a weird invocation of tar and nc instead of just using, say, rsync is an odd choice. And for machines connected to each other over the Internet, it’s positively insane.