filessh

filessh is a TUI file explorer for remote servers. It allows you to manage files on a remote machine from the terminal via SSH.

Core features include browsing directories on the remote host via the SSH protocol, viewing text file contents, editing files in place using your local editor, modifying and deleting files, recursively downloading directories using parallel traversal, spawning SSH sessions directly in a chosen path, support for custom SSH ports, private key authentication and OpenSSH certificates, support for SFTP-based transfers and large directory trees.

filessh is a quick and useful tool that sysadmins, developers, homelab users and those who are familiar with SSH can use. It works best for quick file inspection, lightweight edits or bulk downloads from remote servers without mounting filesystems, long commands involving scp, or reaching for a graphical file manager if you want to stay in the terminal.