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Transfer.sh – File sharing from the command line

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Re: Transfer.sh – File sharing from the command line

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On 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, and…

It'd be interesting to modify this or a similar program to work with rsync

Re: Transfer.sh – File sharing from the command line

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Personally I've been using magic wormhole lately. It's p2p and very easy to use. https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole

I love magic wormhole, you give the recipient three words and a number and the file is sent peer-to-peer. No messing about with routing or anything.
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