Re: FTP-SSL

[Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com>]

Quoting Xavier Santolaria (xavier@santolaria.net):

> Because sftp(1) understands a set of commands similar to those of
> ftp(1). 

I'm unclear on why this is such an attraction, but whatever Works for
Him[tm].

> It may also use many features of ssh.

sftp is really an odd beast, which is part of why it's used so little.
If you can get mileage out of "many features of ssh" within it, you're
doing better than anyone else I know of.