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Here’s another useful command line utility – Secure Copy or SCP, that allows you to securely transfer computer files between a local and a remote host.

sudo scp localfile.dmg remoteuser(at)somehost.com://pathtoupload/

Much neater that using an SFTP client no?

Thanks to my work colleague Luke for bringing this to my attention
Marko

Just a quick one for my reference.
To create a jar package from a list of Java classes, use the following command in terminal:

jar cf jarredfile.jar directory_to_jar

Marko

I’ve been using command line for zipping and ‘tarring’ for a while and never really needed to exclude directories from the archive.

I had to do this today and I worked out that I had to use absolute paths to achieve this.
The following examples will exclude multiple directories from tar and zip archives respectively:

tar -cvf documents.tar.gz /home/user/Documents --exclude "/home/user/Documents/exclude1" --exclude "/home/user/Documents/exclude2"
 
zip -vr -9 documents.zip /home/user/Documents -x "/home/user/Documents/exclude1" -x "/home/user/Documents/exclude2"

Marko