Ssh

• grep SSH Login Attempts

  January 28, 2016

  I recently needed to review all SSH login attempts on a server running Ubuntu Server and used this one-liner to accomplish it. Piping grep into less just lets you stay on the keyboard instead of scrolling with the mouse.

• tail over SSH

  September 15, 2015

  tail displays a log and updates it in realtime. This command tail’s the log over SSH so that you can keep a log displayed in one window while doing more terminal work in another tab/window.

• scp

  August 28, 2015

  This command copies a file from your machine over SSH to a remote machine. Quotation marks are included to escape the folder name that has a space in it. Add -rp if you need to copy a directory: