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CHAPTER 8 Other Useful Commands

8.3 Remote Connections


Remote Connection Commands
Command/SyntaxWhat it will do
finger [options] user[@hostname]report information about users on local and remote machines
ftp [options] hosttransfer file(s) using file transfer protocol
rcp [options] hostnameremotely copy files from this machine to another machine
rlogin [options] hostnamelogin remotely to another machine
rsh [options] hostnameremote shell to run on another machine
telnet [host [port]]communicate with another host using telnet protocol

8.3.1 - TELNET and FTP - remote login and file transfer protocols
8.3.2 - finger - get information about users
8.3.3 - Remote commands

Introduction to Unix - 14 AUG 1996
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