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Reminds me of the bad old days of kermit and x/y/zmodem. http://www.extraputty.com/features/xmodem.html looks like a throwback to those days, over an ssh session. I wonder what you have to run on the server side for it to work?

Does uuencode or base64 work for you? I use it a lot to move stuff (aka my toolkit) to systems where I'm connected via citrix -> rdp -> ssh -> ssh. Amazingly, it works fine, though it can be slow.

  $uuencode sheet1.xml sheet1.xml | pbcopy

(switch to remote session)

  $uudecode (paste, which varies depending on how I'm connected)

  $ls -l sheet1.xml

Ta-da!

There is another throwback for me here when one of our clients had disabled Citrix file transfers and only allowed text based clipboard (due to imposed security policies).

So we had to:

  - zip a directory hierarchy or a single file uuencode

  - copy to shared clipboard

  - paste into a terminal on the other end using a here document

  - uudecode the output

  - checksum the source/destination copy for file integrity purposes

This worked on Windows too (using Notepad and saving the file as .uu for use with WinZip). Luckily file transfers were not a frequent use case.

I wonder what you have to run on the server side for it to work?

sz(1) I assume (a tool with considerable seniority). Found for example in the lrzsz package on Debian.

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