[aklug] Re: Nerdy cross-machine file transfer methods.

On Tuesday 01 December 2009, Shane Spencer said something like:
> I'd love to start a method on nerdy terminal based file transfer
> methods. I have two to get started.

This isn't using the terminal, but I've often used this to transfer
files between machines when I wanted to saturate a local network link:

On the receiving side:
nc -l -p 5000 | tar -xv

tar -cv * | nc host.eeinternet.com 5000

Where ‘5000’ is the port number on which it is communicating. You have
to make sure port 5000 is open between the machines being used.

Also, nc doesn’t indicate when the transfer is done, so you need to
watch the bandwidth used, or use a zero-byte check file named something
like zzz to know the transfer is done.

But it works well, and does 90Mb+ on a 100Mb link.

j

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