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Filippo Morelli
Personal blog · spikelab.org/blogstartupsproductivitycareer
Filippo Morelli writes Spikelab, a personal blog at spikelab.org about startups, productivity and career. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Filippo Morelli's posts cover command-line file transfer, comparing scp, tar over ssh, and tar over nc, including the effect of compression. HN readers cite them as benchmark-style support.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /transfer-largedata-scp-tarssh-tarnc-compared/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-02-16
What Hacker News says?
Tar can transfer more filetypes and attributes than scp can (even using -p option). `scp -p` only transfers mode, mtime and atime; you lose ownership, extended atributes, symlinks, and hardlinks. You will also get better compression with tar (or rsync), as it is compressing the files directly, and not just the ssh stream (-C is just passed on to ssh). I did the tests years ago, but a quick google found someone who t…
Comment linking /transfer-largedata-scp-tarssh-tarnc-compared/
on “Unix tricks”Submitted Cavemen, Samurais and Tyler Durden help you break through failure as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOn a related note, I recently learnt that if you're on the same local network, there's a much faster way to transfer than the old tar|nc trick[0]: udpcast. You do $ udp-sender --min-receivers 1 --full-duplex --pipe 'tar czvf - theDirectory' on the sender and $ udp-receiver --pipe 'tar xzp' and at least on my home network it's 11x faster than tar|nc. There are some caveats[1] about udp not working well everywhere, an…
Comment linking /blog/transfer-largedata-scp-tarssh-tarnc-compared.html
on “Transfer.sh – File sharing from the command line”Submitted The ins and outs of mentoring and how to make it work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCompression also slows it down: http://www.spikelab.org/transfer-largedata-scp-tarssh-tarnc-... This has been my experience in practice, too.
Comment linking /transfer-largedata-scp-tarssh-tarnc-compared/
on “Show HN: Quickly copy a file between computers”Submitted What a psychology experiment can teach you about being a better founder as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Smartphone productivity hack: no app, wording + wallpaper mods to stay focused as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AdventurersLab, part 1: 5 lessons on team building by Spike Morelli as a story · 1 points
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