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Re:Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell by pbowyer on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @02:16AM (#9650841)
> Wishlist: tmux, emacs, vi, netcat, shell option for vi-mode, rc-file with preferences, ncurses library, something simpler than curses, zip and unzip.

First, let's have a copy tool with delta-sync support. I can't believe I have to use a cygwin-based rsync to quickly update my backups throughout the day (currently: shut down Virtualbox dev VM, rsync changes, start VM).

I understand the MS way to do it is DSFR, but for a single developer workstation that's overkill.

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Re:Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell by cstoner on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @03:48AM (#9651137)
Why not use robocopy?
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Re:Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell by pbowyer on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @03:59AM (#9651175)
AFAIK robocopy doesn't do delta-sync of file contents, only of a group of files. So if I want to copy a 50GB file where 10MB has changed, it'll still copy the whole 50GB again.

I would love to be wrong.

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