I have been given SSH access to a client site, but no FTP. While I can use VI, working with a Mac for all these years has me spoiled. Copy/paste across applications, drag-and-drop across applications, all the Mac goodness. What to do? Presuming one has SSH configured to use public/private key authentication it's pretty easy.
Install the latest sshfs from
https://github.com/osxfuse/sshfs/downloads
Install osxfuse
http://osxfuse.github.com/
Now create a folder somewhere handy, and in the terminal enter
sshfs
[email protected]:/path/to/desired/location/ ~/Desktop/working/doman/remote/ -o ssh_command="ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa"
Now your Desktop/working/doman/remote directory will be a link to the remote directory, with all the OS X goodness you could want.
There's also a very nice front-end for this called Macfusion, but I couldn't get it to recognize my sshfs. YMMV.
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