Questions tagged [fish-protocol]

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What's the difference between SFTP, SCP and FISH protocols?

I used to think SCP is a tool to copy files over SSH, and copying files over SSH is called SFTP, which is itself a synonym to FISH. But now as I was looking for a Total Commander plugin to do this in Windows, I've noticed that on its page it says…
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What's the point of the fish protocol?

The fish protocol is a sort of ftp over ssh, that is touted as not needing special software on the server side (unlike scp and sftp). From a cursory glance it seems like it allows fish commands that fall back to basic shell commands if the server…
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Looking for information on the FISH protocol

What I have found about fish:// (the kio protocol) is old and often incomplete. Is there anything that's new? Like a primer? Or is this something to put on the KDE todo list?
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Krusader Configuration for SCP

A remote router is accessible via SSH: 16.04 scp copies files back and forth from the command line. ASUSWRT-Merlin RT-AC68U 384.7-2 Sun Oct 21 17:18:03 UTC 2018 USER@router:/tmp/home/root# # uname -a Linux RT-AC68U-3D90 2.6.36.4brcmarm #1 SMP…
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How to use filelight KDE GUI app remotely by fish/ssh protocols in 2023?

Back in the dayZ, we can run filelight from within a console by typing: filelight fish://root@remote//home but it seems it now doesn't work anymore. Any workaround ? Is the scheme is wrong ? Tried ssh://, no cigar.
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What's difference between FISH and SFTP?

Possible Duplicate: What's the difference between SFTP, SCP and FISH protocols? I use SSH for remote file systems access. And I use Krusader file manager. Krusader offers a choice of FTP, SMB, FISH and SFTP connection protocols, and both FISH and…
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