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		yen223 on April 28, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SSH Kung Fu This is excellent advice. The best part is that you can use the same $ALIAS for tools built on SSH, including scp and rsync, like this: `scp $ALIAS:/var/log/mylogs/logfile ~/backups/logs/`

sampo on April 28, 2014 | [–]

The aliases also work when mounting filesystems over the network in the File Browser.

Nautilus / Connect to Server / Server Address: work/home/user

(here 'work' is the alias for the work computer)

_euvw on April 28, 2014 | [–]

And.... Ansible uses those aliases too, making it trivial to maintain *NIX server that are behind firewalls and/or vpns.

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