Croc and Magic-Wormhole
Giuliano Cardoso · · 1 min read
These two utilities are cousins, one was inspired by the other, and they are simply the two most useful little things I have found lately, after atuin.sh.
Say you want to copy a file from one machine on the LAN to another, or to your phone (both have simple Android versions), or to a VPS/VDS, or whatever.
You only need the utility on one side: run programname send filename, it spits out the command you have to type on the receiver, and that's it.
I use both, because when one's protocol fails, the other's works.
Highly recommended.
You can find croc here: https://github.com/schollz/croc
And Magic Wormhole is here: https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole
They differ only in implementation: one is written in Python (Wormhole), the other in Go (Croc). The protocols they use are different too, each takes its own approach to discovering the other end, which is why, if one fails, you use the other. You will find more details on their pages.
Excellent solutions. They remind me of when I discovered syncthing.