File Transfer Terminal Tools

File transfer moves data between machines over a network, through protocols such as FTP, SFTP, HTTP and rsync over SSH.

 

In the terminal it covers copying a build to a server, mirroring a directory between two machines, restoring a backup, and sending one large file to another person directly. Transfers here tend to add resume after a dropped connection, checksums, compression, encryption and progress output, and they run unattended from scripts and cron.

 

Below is a list of terminal tools that work with file transfer.