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Still using these obsolete Linux commands? They might be popular from the olden days but perhaps it is time to look for alternatives.

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[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

scp the command isn't deprecated, but the SCP protocol is. The command internally uses the SFTP protocol (with OpenSSH 9+)

ref: OpenSSH SCP deprecation in RHEL 9: What you need to know

[–] dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

rsync is one of the most beautiful pieces of software ever created.

[–] PokerChips@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

I always thought that scp was more secure than rsync. I remember back in the day when I "graduated" to scp from rsync. So in reality, did I regress?