Files transferred over shell protocol: Difference between revisions

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'''''FI'''les transferrer over '''SH'''ell protocol'' is a [[Protocol (computing)|protocol]] to use [[SSH]] or [[Remote Shell|rshRSH]] to transfer files between computers. Optionally,and theremanage canremote be a special FISH server program ''start_fish_server'' installed on the serverfiles.<!--What does this do?-->

The advantagesadvantage of FISH areis that all it requires serversideon the server-side is an SSH or RSH implementation, &amp;[[Unix shell]] and a set of standard [[Unix]] shellutilities andlike it[[ls]], doesn't[[cat require(Unix)|cat]] anythingor to[[dd (Unix)|dd]]. Optionally, there can be mounteda special FISH server program (called ''start_fish_server'') on the clientsideserver, which reducesexecutes hassleFISH whencommands onlyinstead usingof FISHUnix shell and thus forspeeds oneup fileoperations.

The protocol was designed by Pavel Machek in [[1998]] for [[Midnight Commander]].