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I have a server I can ssh into, and I am also running Ubuntu. How do I edit this remote file using any program I have installed on my local Ubuntu, without copying it to local, editing it, and copying it back?
Thanks!
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I have a server I can ssh into, and I am also running Ubuntu. How do I edit this remote file using any program I have installed on my local Ubuntu, without copying it to local, editing it, and copying it back?
Thanks!
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If it's Ubuntu, then you probably have the full GNOME suite installed, along with GVFS – so you can access sftp://
URLs directly in all apps.
Use Places → Connect to Server to connect that server's filesystem as if were a local one.
Do the same from command line using
gvfs-mount sftp://hostname.domain.tld/
While GVFS is specific to GNOME apps, all mounted GVFS locations are accessible by any program via /run/<user>/gvfs
(or ~/.gvfs/
in older versions).
KDE programs also support sftp://
via KIO, although they don't have the equivalent of /run/<user>/gvfs
.
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Try sshfs
, a program that allows to mount a remote system accessible via ssh to a local folder.
Install it, create a mount point and execute:
sshfs user@host:remote_dir /path/to/mount_point
Now you can access the remote directory as a local one and you can use your text editor of choice. Moreover, you can use sshfs
as an on-demand video/music streaming solution (see this answer).
Example: if you want to mount the directory music
of a user called pippo
at host pluto
in a folder ./pippo_music
then execute:
sshfs pippo@pluto:music ./pippo_music
You can also mount the root of the pluto host with:
sshfs pippo@pluto:/ ./pippo_root
To automate this process, add a row in fstab
:
sshfs#pippo@pluto:/ /media/pippo_root fuse defaults 0 0
I tried to do this and edit some text files with sublime text, but it didn't work. I could open the files, but when I hit save it wouldn't propagate back to the server. Sometimes it would ask me for a password to save, and I'd type it in, but still no dice. – Nick Retallack – 2014-07-07T03:55:41.590
Never seen that. Try with a different text editor. Also, check the permissions of the file you are editing. – mrucci – 2014-07-07T18:36:43.930
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Update on an old question:
KDE supports a FIle over SsH protocol called fish. Basically, you open your file as URL with the fish:// scheme referring to the file. KDE copies the file over locally to a temp file as you edit. Saves and a quit will push the file back to the remote server.
e.g.
kate fish://user@host:/path/to/file.txt
There's a wrapper for non-KDE editors (or any tools):
kioexec other-editor-or-tool fish://user@host:/path/to/file.txt
Remember that you probably have the KDE libs on your machine, even if you run GNOME desktop or something else.
1kate file://user@host:/path/to/file.txt is not correct. fish instead file should be used. kate fish://user@host:/path/to/file.txt – None – 2015-08-02T09:51:23.527
@Matth yeah, dumb typo. Fixed – Rich Homolka – 2015-08-07T18:30:31.700
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Tramp node in emacs will do this easily: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode
Damn I wish vim had su://
– user1686 – 2010-05-27T12:01:08.300
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vim can open files over SSH:
vim scp://myserver.com/path/to/file.txt
Super-awesome. I never knew about this, thanks for your help! – ash – 2010-05-26T22:08:11.180