How to send files from one Mac to another via Terminal

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Is there a way to send a file in Terminal from one Mac to another? If I have a file on Mac A and I want to send it to Mac B via Terminal on Mac A, how do I do this?

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Enable "Remote Login" in the preferences of the target/remote mac. Then use

scp file user@remotehost:

with user being the short name of the remote user. You will be asked for the password of the user on remotehost.

If you want to avoid using passwords, you can set up ssh key pairs. See here for details.

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Terminal – How to Connect to an Open Terminal Session on Another Mac

Screen is the best way to do it. The command is available under both Mac OS X 10.7 and 10.8.

I configured the console sessions in GNS3 to use Terminal and screen with the following command:

/usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application "terminal" to do script with command "screen telnet %h %p ; exit"'

This can be found in GNS3>Preferences>General>Terminal Settings

Then I list the screen sessions in my remote ssh session with the command:

screen -list

and... finally connect to the required router with:

screen -D -r <name of session obtained with "screen -list" above>

Open Files via Terminal – How to in Another App on macOS

To open any file from the command line with the default application, just type open followed by the filename/path.

Example:

open ~/Desktop/filename.mp4

Edit: as per Johnny Drama's comment below, if you want to be able to open files in a certain application, put -a followed by the application's name in quotes between open and the file.

Example:

open -a "QuickTime Player" ~/Desktop/filename.mp4

If you need further information about the open command, type man open.

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