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When I'm working on some remote host via SSH, I often need to upload or download files. With my current setup, I need to switch to another terminal and conjure up rsync or sftp, which can be a pain if the target host isn't registered in DNS (need to copy+paste IP address) or if I'm working in a directory a few levels down (need to re-type the whole path).

Is there a command-line tool that combines SSH and SFTP? Ideally, it would start a remote shell like normal SSH does but at the press of some key combination, it would switch to an SFTP prompt allowing me to up- download files from the directory the shell is currently in.

Riccardo Murri
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    You may want to have a look at this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/440524/ssh-a-way-to-transfer-files-without-opening-a-separate-sftp-session –  Apr 03 '16 at 21:05

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You want rsync. You can transfer files from the local or remote machine. 

?> rsync -avz user@host.ip:/path/to/remote/path path/to/local
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