Windows to Linux File Transfer (Automatically)

[sunhux G]

Hi David

So, with the private+public key pair, we'll be doing something like
   ssh user at remotehost 'cat remotefile' | dos2unix >> localfile
if I'm initiating ssh from my Linux box to a remote Windows box?
Would the above command be equivalent of ftp's get with 'ascii' +
'append' feature ? Would this command be equivalent to ftp get with
ascii & append mode?

What would be the equivalent command for ftp put with ascii & append
mode then?  I can't figure this out.  With ftp, this is plain sailing.

Would you be able to provide the equivalent rsync via ssh with ascii
& append modes built in (kindly provide equivalents for get & put)


Thanks
U


On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:23 AM, David Bear <David.Bear at asu.edu> wrote:

> I don't think 'ascii' mode is important any longer. But if it is and you
> want 'append' you should consider using rsync over ssh. rsync treats all
> files as binary -- which has been safe for all use cases I have had when
> transferring files from windows to linux and back. running rsync over ssh
> is
> secure as well -- and you can use ssh public keys to make the connection
> passwordless and secure. rsync also will only transfer the 'diffs' -- so if
> file a, b, and c have not changed, but d has changed (and only the 15th
> thru
> the 60th byte) then only the changes to d will be sent. rsync does not
> handle ntfs alternate data streams, and sometimes seems to barf on unicode
> file names using asian charactersets.  so you should test well.
>
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 5:59 AM, sunhux G <sunhux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > pscp or psftp do not support "ASCII" mode transfer which is available in
> > ftp
> > - this was a shortcoming I faced when transferring files between Windows
> &
> >  Unix boxes.  pscp/psftp doesn't support "APPEND" mode too while ftp
> does.
> >
> > Having said that ftp does not transfer data as securely as 'scp' or
> 'sftp'
> >
> > winscp supports "ASCII" though & I think if you're transferring a whole
> > subdirectory of files, winscp will detect which file to be transferred in
> > ASCII & which in Binary.
> >
> > U
> >
>