SSH in OSX

Big Dan · Feb 6, 2009

More of an advanced question for the switcher lounge but I'm wondering if Leopard has secure shell built in.

Can I open terminal and SSH into my server like I can under Linux? If, so is the syntax the same? ssh user@host

ort/path/to/where/i/want/to/go

Secondly can I have SSH shortcuts on my desktop for file transfers..what about FTP?

Thanks a million,
DAn

Dysfunction · Feb 6, 2009

ssh is exactly the same in BSD as it in in linux.

Sounds though like you're using scp for transfers?

now, I suppose you could put aliases on the desktop, I just create terminal aliases because I always have multiple terminal tabs opeb.. and if I'm doing the same transfer over and over and over I'll just use rsync

Big Dan · Feb 6, 2009

Thanks Mike.

I'm usually using SCP or SFTP for file transfers I like the drag and drop GUI for file transfers it's easy for me. I use terminal for SSH when I'm mucking around with backups, config changes and stuff like that. I'm fine with FileZilla for SFTP if need be.

One quick (related) question while I have someone fluent in CLI on the line here

: Is there wget (or similar) in OS X? Lastly is there a man command?

Coming from a partial Linux background I think is going to give me an advantage over coming straight from Windows especially in the CLI aspect.

Dysfunction · Feb 6, 2009

wget is not built into OS X, but you can install it

mikeMbp:test1 mike$ which wget
/usr/bin/wget

I just don't recall where I downloaded it from
man is a *nix standard, so it's definitely in OS X

Aptmunich · Feb 6, 2009

My advice: Just try stuff out. If you know your way around the terminal, you should feel right at home in Bash on OS X.

rsmithgi · Feb 6, 2009

Big Dan said:
Thanks Mike. I'm usually using SCP or SFTP for file transfers I like the drag and drop GUI for file transfers it's easy for me. I use terminal for SSH when I'm mucking around with backups, config changes and stuff like that. I'm fine with FileZilla for SFTP if need be.

One quick (related) question while I have someone fluent in CLI on the line here : Is there wget (or similar) in OS X? Lastly is there a man command?

Coming from a partial Linux background I think is going to give me an advantage over coming straight from Windows especially in the CLI aspect.

man exists and works as expected.

wget does not exist, but curl is provided and wget is available:

Paul Maunders | Web log » A wget replacement for OS X Leopard

Dysfunction · Feb 6, 2009

or you could actually install wget, it's small.

Installing wget on Mac OS X | Ionut's WebSpace

Big Dan · Feb 6, 2009

Thank you very much all.

Just got my mac am happily surfing around, I have a couple of questions about finder. See yous on the next thread.

walkerj · Feb 7, 2009

Sounds like you would probably benefit muchly from installing all the darwin ports. That way if there is something you find missing from OS X command line utilities you can bring it down and install it to do all sorts of useful things.

Make sure you have the Xcode (not installed by default, but comes with your OS X DVDs) installed, which gives you gcc so you can compile all the goodies.