SFTPCACHE(1)

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SFTPCACHE(1) is the General Commands Manual page for sftpcache, and she is literally here to cache sftp connections for you, bestie. No cap. 💅

🎀 NAME 🎀

sftpcache — cache sftp connections 💾✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

sftpcache system

That’s the whole vibe: you call sftpcache with the system argument, and she does her thing. 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so here’s the tea: sftpcache multiplexes clients onto persistent sftp(1) connections. Iconic behavior, honestly.

She runs sftp system and posts a socket named system.sftp in the name space directory (see intro(4)). Yes, the name space directory — not a typo, iykyk.

Clients can connect to the socket — one at a time — to interact with the sftp session. So share the connection, but take turns, bestie. 💖

And yeah, sftpcache is used by netfiles(1). She’s a whole supporting character that ate. 👑

🧚 SOURCE 🧚

The source is at:

/src/cmd/sftpcache.c

That’s the spot. Go look if you’re nosy (respectfully). 🔍

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Go give them a read, bestie. ✨

💀 BUGS 💀

🚨 BUG ALERT 🚨: sftpcache only works with OpenSSH versions 4.3 and earlier. Later versions do not print the sftp> prompt frequently enough.

So yeah, no cap: if you’re on a later OpenSSH, this is giving incompatible. Check that version before you get attached. 😭

kiss kiss 💋 this was SFTPCACHE(1), sourced from /src/cmd/sftpcache.c — date? not listed on this page, so she’s timeless, periodt. 🎀✨

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