lambalicious comments on Deprecated Linux Commands You Should Not Use Anymore

Deprecated Linux Commands You Should Not Use Anymore (itsfoss.com)

submitted 8 months ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/linux@programming.dev

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Still using these obsolete Linux commands? They might be popular from the olden days but perhaps it is time to look for alternatives.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 38 points 8 months ago (3 children)

rsync is cool but is nowhere a replacement for scp's main use case. scp actually uses your SSH client settings file, whereas rsync doesn't (it does have the opportunity to use a SSH command, which you then have to setup separately).

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[–] Brummbaer@pawb.social 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

I'm not sure I get what you mean. In every distro I used so far rsync did use ssh by default so it would honor everything I set in the ssh config.

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[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 8 months ago*

Not everything however. For it to catch some options , for example SOCKS bridges, you have to use the SSH passthrough notation aka rsync -e 'ssh bridgename...' --rsync-options.... And ofc if you have to load a different SSH conffile, you have to use the while passthrough for that as well, there's no rsync native option to load a SSH conffile: rsync -e 'ssh -F conffile ssh_options...' --rsync-options....