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OS: Ubuntu 12.04

I was wondering if there are programs which let you edit a file on a remote server through ssh. Basically what I'm looking for is the following:

There is a remote AIX server that contains a certain file (a perl script i.e.) and I want to edit it from my native machine (my Ubuntu). Is there a program which lets me edit the file (by first giving the IP and password of the remote server) and save the file on the server?

Ofcourse I could just edit the file on the remote server, but I was wondering if there exists something like the NppFTP plugin for Notepad++ on Windows. It doesn't matter if it is terminal (nano i.e.) or gui.


Solution 1:

ssh -X user@server gedit file.txt

This doesn't work because gedit is not installed on the remote server

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  • gedit can do that. How to: thecodecentral.com/2010/04/02/… Mind you: most of these ftp/ssh editing methods do not work if you do not have permissions to edit (ie. need sudo).
    – Rinzwind
    Jul 24, 2014 at 10:16
  • But that's 8.04, I get stuck with step 1
    – Noosrep
    Jul 24, 2014 at 10:24
  • Step 1 looks like Nautilus (file-> connect to server).
    – Rinzwind
    Jul 24, 2014 at 10:27
  • Uhu, that does the trick!
    – Noosrep
    Jul 24, 2014 at 10:30
  • Also look at this
    – c0rp
    Jul 24, 2014 at 10:43

2 Answers 2

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You can try

vim scp://[email protected]//path/to/document

More info and examples

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  • This opens a file called /tmp/vxTuIQp/0.pl and not my specified file?
    – Noosrep
    Jul 24, 2014 at 10:49
  • When you save your work that local copy is sending to remote server and you will see something like :!scp -q '/tmp/vxTuIQp/0.pl' '[email protected]//path/to/document'
    – tuxar
    Jul 24, 2014 at 11:18
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You can also install sshfs

Running the following commands:

sudo apt-get install sshfs
sudo modprobe fuse
sudo addgroup yourlocalusername fuse
mkdir servermountfolder
sshfs yourusername@server:/path/to/file/  servermountfolder

Will mount the remote server into the servermountfolder on your desktop pc. Where you can easily edit the file directly with any editor of your liking.

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  • Yes, c0rp has already given that answer :)
    – Noosrep
    Jul 24, 2014 at 12:09

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