As part of the 8.0 pre-release announcement, the OpenSSH project stated that they consider the scp protocol outdated, inflexible, and not readily fixed. They then go on to recommend the use of sftp or rsync for file transfer instead. Many users grew up on the scp command, however, and so are not familiar with rsync. Additionally, rsync can do much more than just copy files, which can give a beginner the impression that it’s complicated and opaque. Especially when broadly the scp flags map directly to the cp flags while the rsync flags do not. This article will provide an introduction and transition guide for anyone familiar with scp. Let’s jump into the most common scenarios: Copying Files and Copying Directories. Copying files For copying a single file, the scp and rsync commands are effectively equivalent. Let’s say you need to ship foo.

Vagrant wrapper allows you to store a single Vagrantfile in a predefined location $VAGRANTW_DIR and use that across multiple projects with ease. Think like the popular virtualenvwrapper but for Vagrant. An Example Let’s say for instance I have a project that looks like the following: ./example └── main.c 0 directories, 1 file And I need to test if it compiles on Ubuntu when I’m running on a Mac or Fedora. In this situation you have a few options: Spin up a VM using Vagrant The problem here is then I’d have to add a Vagrantfile to this projects repo and either commit it or Gitignore it. This becomes more arduous when you have multiple projects like this since you have to maintain a Vagrantfile per project. So our project looks like this: ./example └── main.c └── Vagrantfile 0 directories, 1 file Use a docker container The problem with docker containers is shared with that of the above solution of ‘Vagrant per project’.