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curious_cosmo
curious_cosmo

Reputation: 1214

How to access files through SSH with Python script?

I would like to run a Python script in my home directory that pulls data from various files. However, to access these files I need to log into an SSH and then navigate to a certain directory. Is there a way to do this while running my script in my home directory?

I would just copy them over using scp, but there are thousands, so I don't think this would be very efficient (but is a last resort option). Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 953

Answers (2)

Hugo
Hugo

Reputation: 109

You can try using sshfs. With it you can mount a file system in your local computer accessing it through your ssh connection.

sudo mkdir /mnt/droplet sudo sshfs -o allow_other,defer_permissions [email protected]:/ /mnt/droplet

Check this tutorial from digitalocean: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-sshfs-to-mount-remote-file-systems-over-ssh

Upvotes: 1

Super_John
Super_John

Reputation: 1897

I would recommend using rsync. This will ssh you in and perform r-sync on whatever directory you want. It's (probably) the most efficient and reliable way to pull a lot of large files.

rsync -a --progress username@remote_host:destination_directory ~/dir1

Upvotes: 1

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