On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 10:08:57PM -0400, Michael E. Webster wrote: > On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 21:32, Ben Halicki wrote: > > Anyone know a quick and easy way to list the contents of a file on a > > remote machine? Similar to the cat command, but the file is sitting > > on another server. I was thinking about using scp to copy the file to > > the local machine first, then using cat, but thought there might be a > > way of performing this in one step? > Take a look at rsh - it will do what you're wanting. rsh is fine in a restricted environment but the OP has scp working. So he may as well use ssh: ssh user@host cat filename Graphically, if you are using KDE, and you have your ssh keys setup, you can use this URL in konqueror: fish://user@host -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
