fish
&Joerg.Walter; &Joerg.Walter.mail;
&Brad.Hards; &Brad.Hards.mail;
2005-02-29
1.1.2
Allows you to access another computer's files using the SEcure Shell (SSH) protocol. The remote computer needs to be running the SSH daemon, but the remainder of the protocol uses standard commandline tools as discussed below.
You can use the fish tdeioslave like this:
fish://hostname or fish://username@hostname.
You need to use double forward slashes.
You can omit the username (and the trailing
@ symbol) if you have the same username on both computers.
You can add a password in the format:
fish://username:password@hostname
but it is not necessary as you will be prompted for one if it is not
supplied.
If you are running the SSH daemon on a non-standard
port, you can specify that port using the normal &URL; syntax as shown
below:
fish://hostname:portnumber.
Fish should work with any roughly POSIX compatible
&UNIX; based remote computer. It uses the shell commands
cat, chgrp,
chmod, chown,
cp, dd,
env, expr,
grep, ls,
mkdir, mv,
rm, rmdir,
sed,
and wc. Fish starts
/bin/sh as its shell and expects it to be a
Bourne shell (or compatible, like bash).
If the sed and
file commands are available, as well as a
/etc/apache/magic file with &MIME; type
signatures, these will be used to guess &MIME; types.
If Perl is available on the remote
machine, it will be used instead. Then only env and
/bin/sh are needed. Using
Perl has the additional benefit of being
faster.
Fish may even work on &Windows; machines, if tools like
Cygwin are installed. All the above
utilities must be in the system PATH, and the initial
shell must be able to process the command echo
FISH:;/bin/sh correctly.